The Minor Works of Marsilio Ficino

...it is fitting to introduce original: "intermittere"; likely meaning to weave in or include here that Platonic comparison, which I have described more extensively elsewhere. Just as the Sun generates both the eyes and colors, and provides the eyes with the power by which they see, and the colors with the quality by which they may be seen, and joins both together into one through a reconciling light: so God is thought to relate to all intellects and intelligible things things that are understood by the mind rather than perceived by the physical senses.

For He Himself procreates the intelligible forms species: the essential "blueprints" or eternal ideas of things of things and all intellects; He grants to both a power of acting upon each other that is both unique and natural. Moreover, He constantly pours a common light around them. Through this light, He rouses the powers of both the intelligible things and the intellects toward a mutual action, and joins them together in that act. This light, indeed, is truth in the things to be understood, but in the minds it is knowledge...