And it remains for us now to seek again that which we possessed and lost, and to yoke the soul to the Holy Spirit, and to work out the conjugal union according to God. The soul of men, then, is manifold and not simple; for it is composite, so as to become manifest through the body; for neither would it ever appear apart from the body, nor does the flesh rise again apart from the soul. For man is not, as those croak-voiced ones dogmatize, a rational animal capable of intelligence and knowledge; for, according to them, the irrational animals too will be shown to be capable of intelligence and knowledge. But man alone is the image and likeness of God; and by man I mean not the one who does things like the animals, but the one who has advanced far from mere humanity toward God himself. And concerning this we have written more precisely in our treatise On Animals. What presses for the moment is to state of what sort is the image and likeness according to God. That which is incomparable is nothing other than Being itself; but that which is compared is nothing other than the very thing that is similar. The perfect God, then, is fleshless, but man is flesh; the bond of the flesh is the soul, and the flesh is what contains the soul. Now this form of constitution, if it be like a temple, God wills to dwell in it through the mediating spirit; but if the tabernacle be not of this sort, man surpasses the beasts only in articulate speech, while in the rest he is of the same manner of life as they, not being a likeness of God. But the demons, all of them, possess no flesh, but their composition is spiritual, like that of fire or air. And only to those guarded by the spirit of God are the bodies of the demons easily discernible, but to the rest in no way—I mean to the merely soul-bound; for the lesser cannot have the power to apprehend the greater. For this reason, then, the substance of the demons has no place for repentance. For they are effulgences of matter and of wickedness. And matter willed to lord it over the soul; and according to free will some delivered laws of death to men; but men, after the loss of immortality, have conquered death by the death that is through faith, and through repentance a calling has been granted to them, according to the one who said, "Since they were made for a little while lower than the angels." And it is possible for everyone who has been conquered to conquer again, by renouncing the constitution of death. And what this is will be readily discernible to the men who desire immortality.