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knowable, and (2) because knowledge, or consciousness, is the very essence of the soul.
In respect of the quality of knowability, it is sufficient to say that every thing that has existence for its characteristic must be known to at least one soul, as already proved. But since all souls are alike as regards their substantive nature, they must all be endowed with the same or an equal capacity in respect of knowledge. Hence, what one soul can know all others can also become aware of.
As regards consciousness also, it is evident that the soul cannot but be possessed of the potency for infinite knowledge, unlimited by Time or Space, for knowledge consists in the modifications or aspects of its own substance (consciousness).
Putting these conclusions together, we arrive at the inference that the soul's consciousness or knowing capacity is unlimited within the range of the possible, so that only the impossible lies beyond its knowing capacity. But since all that exists is also limited to the possible in nature, and since the possible in nature corresponds to the possible in knowledge or thought, on account of the quality of knowability which has been seen to be an inalienable attribute of things, it follows, with the certainty of logic, that nothing that the soul can never know can ever actually bappen or exist in nature.
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