Acknowledgements Citations of the Plotinus Commentary Preface General Introduction: The Commentary on Plotinus'' Enneads 1 Religious Philosophy or Philosophical Religion 2 Plotinus'' Disclosure of Plato''s Mysteries 3 The Correction of Peripateticism 4 The Exegetical Approach to the Enneads 5 The Place of the Plotinus Commentary in Ficino''s Work 6 The Place of the Commentary in the Earlier "Plotinian" Tradition Excursus 0: The Problem of Ficino''s exhortatio Part 1: Analogy and Trinity 1 Plotinus and Christianity 1.1 The Christian Context 1.2 The Three Primary Substances: Terminology 1.3 The Heretical Errors2 Ficino''s Logic of Analogy 2.1 The Platonic Genera and Their Mysteries 2.2 The Analogy between Platonic Genera and Peripatetic Categories 2.3 Ficino and Analogy 2.4 Ratio and Analogy Excursus 2: Substance and Quality x2.

1 Substance x2.2 Quality3 The Trinitarian Analogue 3.1 Ficino, Plotinus, and Aquinas on the Trinity 3.2 The "Plotinian" Trinity Part 2: From Ontology to Agathology 4 The Structure of Soul 4.1 Importance of the Commentary on Ennead I 4.2 Soul and Animate Being 4.3 From Microcosm to Macrocosm5 The Unembodied Soul 5.1 The Higher Soul in the Commentary on Ennead I 5.

2 Summary of Ficino''s Doctrine of Soul 5.3 The Higher Soul in the Commentary on Ennead IV6 The Embodied Soul 6.1 The Embodied Soul in the Commentary on Ennead IV7 Transmigration and Embodiment 7.1 Ficino against Transmigration 7.2 Ficino and Origen8 Sensation 8.1 General Theory of Sensation 8.2 Ficino''s Innovations 8.3 Vision9 Intellect and Ideas 9.

1 Intellect and Intellectual Soul 9.2 Analogies of Light 9.3 The Divine "Splendour" and "Figure" 9.4 Intellect''s Relation to the Ideas 9.5 The Relation of Ideas to One Another 9.6 The Range of Ideas 9.7 The Distinction between Intellect and the Intelligible 9.8 Agent and Possible Intellect 9.

9 The Distinction between Discursive and Non-discursive Thinking 9.10 Ideas, Formulae, and Seminal Reason-Principles 9.11 The Temporalization of the Ideas 9.12 Intellect''s Relation to Number10 Soul''s Choice between Good and Evil 10.1 The Good 10.2 The Multiplicity of Goods 10.3 The (Sub-) Contrariety of Good and Evil 10.4 The Soul''s Choice: Ficino between Plotinus and Augustine11 The Threefold Reversion 11.

1 Return and Triplicity 11.2 The Triadic Preamble to Ennead I. 3 11.3 The Commentary Proper12 Ascent to Beauty 12.1 Irradiation of Beauty: lumen and color 12.2 The Divine Nature of Beauty: lumen 12.3 Reception of Beauty: splendor13 Ascent to the One and the Good 13.1 Presence 13.

2 Futurity 13.3 Ascent by Will Excursus II: Daemons and Soul xII.1 Internal and External Daemons xII.2 Plotinus'' Daemon PART 3: Matter, Reason, Spirit 14 Matter 14.1 Negative and Affirmative Approaches 14.2 The Structure of the Commentary on Ennead II. 4 14.3 Quantity 14.

4 Dimensionality 14.5 Privation 14.6 Infinity Excursus 14: Potency and Act x14.1 The Structure of the Commentary on Ennead II. 5 x14.2 Potency and Act x14.3 The Metaphysical Continuum of Potency and Act x14.4 The Intelligible World x14.

5 Potency and Act in Relation to Soul x14.6 The Sensible World x14.7 The Relation of Primal Matter to Being-in-Potency and Being-in-Act15 Ratio 15.1 The Primal Ratio in Christianity 15.2 The Primal Ratio in Plotinus Excursus 15: Non-formal Ratio x15.1 Ratio as Principle of Form x15.2 Ratio between the Real and the Nominal x15.3 Ratio above and below Form16 Spirit 16.

1 Heaven, Fire, and Spirit 16.2 Heaven as Macrocosm 16.3 Fire as Macrocosm 16.4 Spirit as Macrocosm and Microcosm 16.5 Conspiration Conclusion Bibliography.