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The soul of man is essentially one, but according to power (virtually) three. The intellective soul in man is then in act within the body, wherever the soul acts as the substantial form of the body, to inform the matter of the body and thereby cause man as a composite of body and soul acting with operational powers. The soul is where it is in act, but is not divisible per se, or accidentally, for the soul is not extended by the quantity of the body. For the soul as the substantial form of the body is not per se quantic, or extended, and thereby not subject to the quantity of the body.
The point of contact of the intellective soul with the body may be stated as - wherever the body is informed by the powers of the soul which cause vegetative and sensitive life of the body. When the operations of vegetative and sensitive life are not in the body, the soul no longer informs the body.
JM
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