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1540 This date likely refers to the year of the edition or a specific printing mark.

Angel
The angel is above the mobile soul 87
It precedes the soul 89
It is immobile 115
It is not entirely simple and is inferior to God 116
It is entirely raised toward God 119
Its circle is twofold 133
What it is 124 & 337
The soul is equal in its potential for perfection 149
The image of goodness 151
The mind of an angel is stable 369
The essence [of an angel] 369
What things should be established regarding its nature 118
The threefold motion of the soul 1062
The soul is lower than the angel 116
A multitude [of angels] is assigned 116
That the angel is utterly immobile 89
God performs his work through it 108
We consider it to be mind Mind: In Neoplatonism, "Mens" (Mind/Intellect) is the first emanation from God, higher than the soul. 103
It is entirely within eternity 1552
What kind of beings angels are 87, 474
They turn either toward God, toward themselves, or toward lower things 1080
Good [angels] 1672
The nine orders of angels 19
Their office 19
The orders come from the Good itself 1050
Orders 1096
Their head 288
Types [of angels] 485
Everlasting motion 1100
That there are many angels 88
How individuals have guardians referring to guardian angels 865
God forms them through Himself 125
They protect all things at once by divine power 1103
The angelic life is superior to the rational life 18
The angelic mind 124
Angelic lives are separate from bodies 373

Distress Latin: Angustia; can also mean "narrowness" or "constriction."
Distress in the body 155

Spirit Latin: Animus; usually refers to the rational spirit or the "higher" soul in man.
The spirit is the master of its body 15
It cannot exist unless it lives 152
It is not fed by physical nourishment 184
The divine [spirit] is fortified by the three Graces 443
The human [spirit] is not subject to the heavens meaning it is not bound by astrological fate 209
It is closer to divine things than to the heavens 210
It does not become more unjust when the body is sick 215
It does not perish by its own stain
It should not be called an inhabitant of the earth 226
The human [spirit] transcends finite things 237
The religious and the impious [spirit] 325
What the human [spirit] is like 337
How a grieving spirit should be composed 502
It is purified by theology 600
From what the divine [spirit] ought to repay 661
The divine [spirit] 817
The good and evil [spirit] 835
The most excellent part of man 1004
What it desires from a tender age 1350
How it degenerates from its own good into the opposite 1586
What it is like when purged of the body’s filth 1577
When it acts and when it suffers or "is passive" 1677
When it is thought not so much to act as to suffer 1677
How many evils oppress the impious [spirit] 1849

The Mind's Ascent
The ascent of the mind to the spirit 181
Appetite or desire 185
Actions [of the mind] are not subject to the heavens 210
Intention occupied with the illusions of the imagination original: phantasiae 216
A mobile operation 237
The command of motion 285
Virtue 289
If actions are divine, why they are affected by disturbances 380
Vices 391
Leaders 495
Exercise sometimes causes harm 513
Since they are divine, why they live profanely 630
Divinity and religion 660
Who can cure the diseases [of the mind] 672
Its three powers 995
Affections are divided in a threefold way 1278
The intention of the lover is always in the thought of the beloved 1346
The strengths [of the mind] are divided 1403
The beginning of evil happens by accident 1586
Avoid those things which are evil 1586
Those divinely inspired 1883
That the mind consists of two wings A reference to Plato’s Phaedrus, where the wings of the soul are wisdom and love. 1
To look more closely at divine things in old age 1397
It is a mirror of divine things 1502
To resolve motion into stability and to subject mobile things to immobile things 1731
Mountains do not separate minds, for [minds] are higher than mountains 782
The descent of minds 817
Immortality 817
The office of the blessed [minds] 1033

Soul Latin: Anima; refers to the soul as the principle of life and movement.
What the soul is 20
The rational [soul] is twofold 20
It does not grow like the body 71
It is mobile 89
Why it is better than the body 95
It is inferior to the angel 116
It is a lower quality 116
What it provides to bodies 117
It descends from divine things and desires divine things 118
The soul as a geometer 123
A participant in the mind 126
The degree of rational beings 131
It is always running 132
It is threefold 133
The rational soul is immortal 135
It is not dissipated 129
It is indivisible 139
Pure form 141
It is referred to God 143
What kind of form it becomes 143
Once [the body] is destroyed, the essence remains 145
The rational soul presides over all matter 138
It does not receive divisible qualities 139
What it is 145 and 139
Its own life 147
[The soul] and the angel are equal in perfection 149
It is life and essence 150
Why it is immortal 150
The irrational [soul] 151 and 152
What it is 156, 1549, and 1608
It uses natural action 157
It is neither body nor a form divided in the body 162
It is to be sought beyond the nature of the body 163
Indivisible 164
More excellent than the body 164
Either the bank or the fountain of life 167
Like a breath 172
It perceives as a whole everywhere 176
Stretched through the whole body 176
It is not harmed when the body is harmed 177
It is not a form scattered through bodies 178
Bound to motion 178
When it departs, the body fails 179
It is not a composition 180
The living of an honest man’s soul [is more intense] than that of a robber 181
[The soul] and the body are in dissonance 181
It sings in harmony with a good man and revolves within itself 202
It operates freely 206
It does nothing without the help of the body 211
The soul of man corresponds to divine things in contemplation
What the human and rational soul is like 217
Through its instrument the body, the digestion of food bestows a threefold form 228
It breaks the air through the tongue referring to speech 234
It is more powerful than the force by which bodies live 275
The mistress of the body 286
It is above fate 289
The soul of beasts 337
Form 343
Created in a moment 348
The true mover of the body 351
The rational soul imitates divine providence in four ways 378
The soul does not only gape after divine things 381
The truest middle point Ficino famously placed the Soul as the "mean" or center of the universe, linking the physical and spiritual worlds. 388
Superiority 388
The human soul seems to concern itself with three things 388
From where it descends into the body 404
When it is infused into the body 406
To where it is accustomed to flee 407
The seedbed of the body 481
Whom we ought to imitate in feeding [the soul] 610
It is moved, having been moved by itself 1211
By how many ways it returns to God 1332
Why it is compared to a composite thing 1451
First and second [soul] 1549
The rational soul is converted 1607
By what instinct it enters the body 1631
Our [soul] is the sister of the World Soul 1673
To what extent it undergoes fate 1677
The World Soul original: anima mundi is twofold 1714
It is not strictly in the body, but at the body 1739
How it becomes similar to the things to be perceived 1804
Why it is said to possess the appearance of the thing to be perceived 1803
In the order of providence, it is both prior and previously distinct from the body 1806
What things it acts upon 1806
The life of the body is depraved by pleasure and pain 1852
Every human [soul] is immortal 1858
It is a participant in the intellect 1875

The Soul's Life
What the life of the soul is 23
The head [of the soul] is the mind 86
Its work is to provide such motion 90
[The soul's] composition 116
Its motion is natural 117
The heaven is subjected to the mobile [soul] 133
Its being is in essence and not to be dissolved 145
What its being is 145
Its provisions for bodies 145
Who its creator is 147
Its essence is immobile 147
Its essence is life 150
[Its] act 150
Offices 156
What its power reaches 157
Office 163
Its lowest part 173
Its coupling with the body 177
Why curved things are attributed to it 202
Its substance is free from the body 203
Its most excellent parts 203
Matter is subjected to it 208
The chariot of the spirit Chariot: A Neoplatonic concept of the "ethereal vehicle" the soul uses to descend into the material world. 211
The spirit is the mediator to the body 217
Mortal [souls] 219
The efforts of our [souls] 305
The life of the intellect 273
The head of the idol of the world Refers to the lower reflection or shadow of the World Soul. 289
The degree of the rational [soul] 336
Parts 340
Blessed and wretched [souls] 372
The descent into the body contributes to the soul’s own blessedness 374
[Souls] of the deceased are mindful of a benefit 276
Their state before they come to the body 386
Composition 388
Lower things 388
Divine [souls] 390
Profane [souls] 390
Those purged will live with God 395
What kind rational [souls] ought to be 404
The state of the pure [soul] 407