![]() ![]() Hume:Īs man is a seven-fold being so is the universe - the septenary microcosm being to the septenary macrocosm but as the drop of rainwater is to the cloud from whence it dropped and whither in the course of time it will return. ![]() This concept also points out the fact that man and cosmos do not only share a similar structure, but also the same source and destination. Everything in this visible universe is the outflow of this Triad, and a microcosmic triad itself. As to his third spirit, the divine, what is it but an infinitesimal ray, one of the countless radiations proceeding directly from the Highest Cause - the Spiritual Light of the World? This is the trinity of organic and inorganic nature - the spiritual and the physical, which are three in one, and of which Proclus says that "The first monad is the Eternal God the second, eternity the third, the paradigm, or pattern of the universe" the three constituting the Intelligible Triad. The pattern of the five agents ( wuxing ), in particular, forges relations among various sets of entities and phenomena, such as numbers, colors, spatial directions, seasons, planets, musical notes, and so forth. Action on the physical plane/world requires a physical body. The macrocosm-microcosm theory lies at the core of correlative cosmology. A Qabalistic approach provides another perspective. He is in it, as it is in him, for the world-pervading element fills all space, and is space itself, only shoreless and infinite. The above diagram was taken from The Sword & The Serpent, by Denning & Phillips No single view of either Macrocosm (the Universe as a whole) and the Microcosm (the Human as a whole) can comprehend all there is. Steiner discusses the various paths of self-development that lead across these two thresholds and to the transformation of human soul-forces into spiritual organs of perception. Like a foetus, he is suspended, by all his three spirits, in the matrix of the macrocosmos and while his terrestrial body is in constant sympathy with its parent earth, his astral soul lives in unison with the sidereal anima mundi. The human life alternates between the great, external macrocosm and the invisible inner microcosm. Man is a little world-a microcosm inside the great universe. The idea is that man is a reflection of the universe, containing all the essential elements present in the latter. Blavatsky one of the objects of the study of the Esoteric Sciences is that of "proving Man to be identical in spiritual and physical essence with both the Absolute Principle and with God in Nature". A macrocosm refers to not a representation, but instead the actual internal systems of the subject of the sentence itself. ![]()
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