 As Taurellus characterizes it, there is a circle of causation between the emergent form and the elements from which it emerges: The life of the soul is communicated to the body (VML: sig. Gr), but the life of the souls is also perfected by actions that it can only carry out by means of the body (VML: sig. Gv). Consequently, the soul perfects the body and the body perfects the soul (VML: sig. G2r). Astonishingly, Taurellus applies such a conception of the mutual dependence between forms and organic bodies even to the case of humans. As he claims, “the human soul by itself is capable of ceasing to be” (VML: sig. F4v). Thus, they have in common with the soul of brutes that “they necessarily have their essence and life in a body” (VML: sig. G4r; see TRA: 11). Taurellus does not challenge the theological idea of immortality but concludes that if human beings are immortal, the relevant supernatural divine agency responsible for resurrection must relate to soul and body alike (TRA: 26).