The Relationship Between the Image and the Model

In general, everything that derives its existence from anything else and its image could no longer subsist without its model. If so, the principle which begets these powers will exist everywhere they are. From this standpoint also, the universal being must be present as a whole without undergoing any divisions. It is in this manner that the inferior potentialities proceed from the superior ones. Souls are as immortal as the one from whom they proceed.