ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at one of Ficino's meditations on the central notion of reflection in the ninth book of his eighteen-book magnum opus, the Platonic Theology: On the Immortality of Souls first published in 1482. In the Platonic Theology, Ficino again confronts the issue of a resurrection, and specifically a resurrection of the body. In the end, he says, it is God's measureless power that is the efficient cause of this. For it is most appropriate that "the infinity of life that raises the dead" be the same infinity that preserves the dead free from death for eternity. Ficino focuses upon the central paradoxes of these conversion metaphors by focusing on the twin notions of dying to a former life and of falling to sleep; and in the context of refuting the epicurean notion that when the body dies the soul must die.
