Section 4.

7 discussed two problems that centre on the supposed affinity

between the rational souls of mortals and the cosmic soul. First, if human
reason is radically demiurgic in nature, as well as being of similar nature to
the cosmic soul, then the argument in Chapter i, Section 1.3, for the
separateness of the demiurgic god from the cosmic soul becomes less
convincing. Second, the fact that the rational human soul is subject to
reincarnation seems to imply that it is only ever cobbled together with its
current body in a way quite different from the integrated animation wherebv
one and the same body always belongs to the cosmic soul. Resolution was
perhaps clearer for the first problem than for the second.