ABSTRACT
Ficino is interested in the Statesman for reasons other than determining the precise count of solar years in the Great Year, however significant that might be. He feels bound to attack, even as he is fascinated by, the hallowed Platonic notion of soul-circuits, meaning reincarnation in some form or other. Ficino returns to the Statesman's myth for the last time in the Platonic Theology in 18.9.4 in order to draw an explicit connection between Platonic and Christian conceptions of the resurrection of the body. The supreme validation of the soul-body ascent to the aether is Ficinos account in the Platonic Theology of levitation. The ultimate Resurrection of the body, of all bodies, of Body itself has become, in Ficino's eyes, the ultimate levitation, one quickened by the very radiance of Christ's body and then borne upwards on the shafts of his intelligible splendour to a union with the Father who transcends all light and darkness.
