Now to the element of our soul which is in the likeness of God it is not that which is subject to flux and change by way of alteration, but this stable and unalterable element in our composition that is allied: and since various differences of combination produce varieties of forms (and combination is nothing else than the mixture of the elements-by elements we mean those which furnish the substratum for the making of the universe, of which the human body also is composed), while the form necessarily remains in the soul as in the impression of a seal, those things which have received from the seal the impression of its stamp do not fail to be recognized by the soul, but at the time of the World-Reformation, it receives back to itself all those things which correspond to the stamp of the form: and surely all those things would so correspond which in the beginning were stamped by the form; thus it is not beyond probability that what properly belongs to the individual should once more return to it from the common source .

Τῷ τοίνυν θεοειδεῖ τῆς ψυχῆς οὐ τὸ ῥέον ἐν τῇ ἀλλοιώσει καὶ μεθιστάμενον͵ ἀλλὰ τὸ μόνιμόν τε καὶ ὡσαύτως ἔχον ἐν τῷ καθ' ἡμᾶς συγκρίματι τούτῳ προσφύεται. Καὶ ἐπειδὴ τὰς κατὰ τὸ εἶδος διαφορὰς αἱ ποιαὶ τῆς κράσεως παραλλαγαὶ μεταμορφοῦσιν͵ ἡ δὲ κρᾶσις οὐκ ἄλλη τις παρὰ τὴν τῶν στοιχείων μίξιν ἐστί͵ στοιχεῖα δέ φαμεν τὰ τῇ κατασκευῇ τοῦ παντὸς ὑποκείμενα͵ δι' ὧν καὶ τὸ ἀνθρώπινον συνέστηκε σῶμα͵ ἀναγκαίως τοῦ εἴδους οἷον ἐκμαγείῳ σφραγίδος τῇ ψυχῇ παραμείναντος͵ οὐδὲ τὰ ἐναπομαξάμενα τῇ σφραγῖδι τὸν τύπον ὑπ' αὐτῆς ἀγνοεῖται͵ ἀλλ' ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τῆς ἀναστοιχειώσεως ἐκεῖνα δέχεται πάλιν πρὸς ἑαυτήν͵ ἅπερ ἂν ἐναρμόσῃ τῷ τύπῳ τοῦ εἴδους, ἐναρμόσειε δὲ πάντως ἐκεῖνα͵ ὅσα κατ' ἀρχὰς ἐνετυπώθη τῷ εἴδει. Οὐκοῦν οὐδὲν ἔξω τοῦ εἰκότος ἐστί͵ πάλιν ἐκ τοῦ κοινοῦ πρὸς τὸ καθέκαστον ἐπαναλύειν τὸ ἴδιον.