We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
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Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to... ...
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
We should no more ask if the soul and body are one than if the wax and the shape pressed into it are one.
"Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility."
"Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter."