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Ficino begins the Platonic Theology by distinguishing in the universe five levels of unity and efficacious power. This is the initiation into the Platonic point of view. It is the first attempt to explain why to “know thyself” is to know the world and God, for the world structure is unified by its relationship to the divinity, and the human soul has a central position in this structure. As Ficino develops this integral view of the universe, he begins to lay bare the principle according to which the divine dimension of man’s world can be revealed.
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© 1974 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Collins, A.B. (1974). The Approach to God Through Unity and Power. In: The Secular is Sacred. International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 69. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2022-0_2
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