"There is necessarily in God a concept or idea, which expresses the essence of the human body … which, therefore, is necessarily something appertaining to the essence of the human mind… . But we have not assigned to the human mind any duration, definable by time, except in so far as it expresses the actual existence of the body, which is explained through duration, and may be defined by time—that is… we do not assign to it duration, except while the body endures. Yet, as there is something, notwithstanding, which is conceived by a certain eternal necessity through the very essence of God… this something, which appertains to the essence of the mind, will necessarily be eternal. Q.E.D."
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