THE UNITY OF BEING DOES NOT EXCLUDE THE EXISTENCE OF OTHER BEINGS.

4. How can there be a plurality of essences, intelligences and soul,

if essence be one? The essence is one everywhere; but its unity does

not exclude the existence of other (beings), which may be said to

conform thereto. It is so also with the unity of the intelligence, and

of the soul, although the Soul of the universe be different from the

particular souls.

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