The Body Approaches the Soul

We are not always both men as we should be. The sense man added himself to the intelligible man who then was each one of us. This occurs every time that the first man slumbers in us and is not present in a certain sense when we fail to reflect about the conceptions of intelligence. But how did the body approach the universal soul? As this body had an aptitude for participation in the soul, it received that for which it was fit. Now, it was disposed to receive a particular soul. That is why it did not receive the universal soul. Although the latter be present with this body, she does not become entirely suitable to it. Plant souls likewise possess only so much