The Universal Soul and the Infinite

In her breast she contains all the souls, each distinct from her, but not separated. She possesses simultaneously unity and infinity. But if one soul be in each person, how does each have his own soul? How then can one soul be good while the other is evil? Indeed nothing was begotten in the universal soul. She did not really divide herself. She only seems divided in respect to what receives her. Everything within her remains what it has always been. That which was begotten, namely the body, approaches the soul and depends on her. We are not bodies; we existed already on high. Some of us were men, others of us were even divinities. As we