====== Tratado 8 (IV, 9) - Whether All Souls Form a Single One? (Guthrie) ======




If all souls be one in the world-soul, why should they not together form one?

Souls may not form a numeric unity. But may form a generic unity

The unity of the principle of several souls need not imply their being identical

Sympathy does not force identity of sensation

Unity of all beings implied by sympathy, love, and magic enchantment

What of the differences of rationality, if the soul be one?

The powers of the soul are not exercised everywhere because they differ

The body's power of growth is derived from the whole, and the soul; but not from our soul

The unity of the souls is a condition of their multiplicity

The soul can beget many because she is an incorporeal essence

How an essence can be one in a multitude of souls is illustrated by seed

This miracle is explained by the use of the conception of potentiality

Difficult as these explanations are. They are clear intelligibly