Aristotle who has been explain'd a thouſand Ways, becauſe he is unintelligible, was of Opinion, according to ſome of his Diſciples, that the Underſtanding in all Men is one and the ſane Subſtance.
The divine Plato, Maſter of the divine Ariſtotle, and the divine Socrates Maſter of the divine Plato, us'd to ſay that the Soul was corporeal and eternal. No doubt but the Demon of Socrates had inſtructed him in the Nature of it. Some People, indeed, pretend, that a Man who boaſted his being attended by a familiar Genius muſt infallibly be either a Knave or a Madman, but this kind of People are ſeldom ſatisfied with any Thing but Reaſon.
With regard to the Fathers of the Church, ſeveral in the primitive Ages believ'd that the Soul was human, and the Angels and God corporeal. Men naturally improve upon every Syſtem. St. Bernard, as Father Mabillon confeſſes, taught that the Soul after Death does not ſee God in the celeſtial Regions, but converſes with Chriſt's human Na-
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