  The third section of the Nova … Philosophia, the Pampsychia, focuses on Soul as an intermediary between the spiritual and corporeal realms. As has been pointed out (Kristeller 1964, 122), Soul thus plays a role similar to that assigned to Light in the Panaugia, but the precise relationship between the two is not dealt with. The soul of an individual living being has the same connection to its body as the World Soul has to the universe as a whole; thus the Anima mundi is not simply a collection of individual souls but a separate entity which vivifies the universe as a distinct reality.