Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I

24Although all minds are throughout immensity, some nevertheless seem to direct certain operations more manifestly toward one region of immensity and some toward another: angelic minds by governing, animating minds by giving life. It is just as if many candles were lit in the same hall, each one’s light filling the whole hall, the lights joined to one another but not mingled; for one light can be separated from another. Although these lights are diffused throughout the whole hall, each is nevertheless directed toward its own candle. It can likewise happen that a mind thinks itself to be only in the body it governs, although it is everywhere beyond the body; just as our mind, though present throughout this whole body, nevertheless, according to many philosophers, thinks itself to be only in the heart. So much for their account of mind. Let us now return to God.