The Soul Is a Plural Unity of Seminal Reasons

In respect to bodies, it is generally recognized that the same thing is both one and many. Another and appearance for instance are therein very differing properties since they are separated here below. After having established this separation, we shall arrive at the conception of a certain intelligible existence which possesses real essence and unity in a still higher degree. We would thus have taken the soul as a sample of the intelligible world, just as the body represents the sense world. Having thus considered this soul, let us examine how this unity can be manifold. Not indeed a composite formed of separable parts, but a single nature simultaneously one and manifold.