The Microcosmic Orbit
The microcosmic orbit showing the yin (descending, in black), and yang (ascending, flame) points.
These can be equated with the chakras of many New Age holistic healing systems ...
Microcosm. The "little" Universe meaning man, made in the image of his creator, the Macrocosm, or "great" Universe, and containing all that the latter contains. These terms are used in Occultism and Theosophy.
Microcosm The little universe, or a human manifesting through its body, the physical body.
Mind The mental faculty that attracts, repels, coordinates and produces cohesion. (see Manas) ...
Microcosm.--The individual world or universe of man.
Mind.--Mind is both conscious and subconscious. Conscious Mind is Spirit, either in God or man. Unconscious Mind is the law of conscious Mind acting and is, therefore, subconscious or subjective.
The microcosm is our own small cosmos. It is the world inside us. Our thoughts, dreams, emotions, and desires are what make up the present moment of this internal universe.
THE MICROCOSM.
From Schotus' Margarita Philosophica.
The pagans believed that the zodiac formed the body of the Grand Man of the Universe.
As a microcosm, man reflects the Threefold nature of Divinity in terms of reason in the head, feeling in the heart and the means by which they emanate, so that the reason and feeling ultimately form a single unity by virtue of the third power.
SECVNDVS est MICROCOSMA MAGIA: quid Microcosmus per suum Spiritum & sibi à natiuitate addictos genios Magicè, hoc est sapientia spirituali effecerit, & quomodo.
My attitude was a microcosm of the American approach to Tarot: Why do we have to drag in this other set of correspondences when the cards already hold so much information, what with their pictures, numbers, ...
Microcosms: Objects of Knowledge
Randy J. LaPolla: On the Utility of the Concepts of Markedness and Prototypes in Understanding the Development of Morphological Systems ...
I have contemplated grandeur in the microcosms of the vegetation, of the plants and trees and rocks, and in the ascending macrocosms of hills, of peaks, of mountains, of ranges, ...
Renaissance correlative cosmology was highly visual (graphic arts) and imagistic in mapping the body, for example Robert Fludd's microcosmic "atmospheric" depiction of the body or various Kabbalistic theories of the body, ...
There is one specific story, of one individual, and his experience with the Catholic Church, that demonstrates their mindset on a microcosmic individual scale. It is the story of the Jewish mystic, Abraham Abulafia.
From the point of view of a self-conscious organism simulating the universe, the ancient mystical goal of the union of microcosm and macrocosm would be achieved.
The pentagram represents the microcosm and internal energies, while the hexagram symbolizes the macrocosm and external energies.
"Love is the great unifier, the prime attractive impulse, cosmic and microcosmic, but the mind is the main creative factor and the utilizer of the energies of the cosmos.
(c) The third basic idea to be held is that Man is the MICROCOSM. As he is so, then all the Hierarchies of the Heavens exist within him. But in truth there is neither Macrocosm nor Microcosm but ONE EXISTENCE.
The drawing of the four pentagrams automatically invokes spirit, the fifth point, and so raises the microcosmic consciousness to the level of the macrocosm, having completely sealed the circle against the Outer Darkness, ...
The universe (the macrocosm or 'great world') is built on the model of man (the microcosm or 'small world') and so, like man, it has a soul.
Holy Names of God which are extracted from the horizontal cross bar of the central cross of each Tablet. In all there are twelve Holy Names on four Tablets which infer a serious connection and bridge between the Macrocosm and the personal Microcosm ...
Believing in seven planes of Kosmic being and states of Consciousness, with regard to the Universe or the Macrocosm, we stop at the fourth plane, finding it impossible to go with any degree of certainty beyond. But with respect to the Microcosm, ...
 See also: World, Spirit, Ritual, Spiritual, Light
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