Ficino's Five-Fold Scheme of God in the Created Universe

Ficino saw no divide between the Pythagorean and occult side of Platonism. He was at pains to connect his heroes to religion where he could, as when he argued that the wise men who attended upon Christ's birth were disciples of Zoroaster. The great modern-day scholar of Renaissance thought, Paul Oscar Costello, believed Ficino went out of his way to put soul right in the middle of the hierarchy.