Microcosm/Macrocosm
"Man is the God of the world, and God is the man of Heaven."
- Eliphas Levi
"Nature being the Universe, is one, and its origin can only be one eternal Unity. It is an organism in which all natural things harmonise and sympathise with each other. It is the Macrocosm. Everything is the product of one universal creative effort; the Macrocosm and man (the Microcosm) are one. They are one constellation, one influence, one breath, one harmony, one time, one metal, one fruit." — Paracelsus (Philosophia ad Athenienses)
"Man is a little world--a microcosm inside the great universe. Like a fetus, 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. 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. 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." - Manly P Hall , The Secret Teachings Of All Ages.
"The God of the Macrocosm and the God of the Microcosm act upon each other, and both are essentially one, for there is only one God and one law and one Nature, through which wisdom becomes manifest."
— Paracelsus, De Fundamento Sapientiae
God created man in his own image. The universe is the image of God and man is the image of nature. Man is, therefore, the image of the image; in other words, a microcosm, or small world. The world is a rational being, living and immortal; man is equally rational, but he is mortal, or at least divisive. Hermes Trimegisto says that the world is immortal, because no part of it is ever destroyed. Nothing is ever annihilated, and if "dying" means to be annihilated then "dying" is a term with no reason to be; because there is no death in nature. If we say that a man dies, we do not mean that something of that man perishes; we only mean that his body and soul part. The true image of God is His Word, Wisdom, Life, Light, and Truth; exist through Him, and the soul (spiritual) is His image. Therefore it is said that We (man in his primitive purity as a spiritual being) were created in the image of God, and not in the image of the world or its creatures. God cannot be touched with the hand, nor hear with the external ear, nor see with the external eye; similarly, the spirit of man cannot be seen, heard or touched in this way. God is infinite and invincible, and the spirit of man (spiritual soul) is free and immovable. In God is contained the whole world and all that exists in it, and likewise, in the will of man is contained every part of his body. Man, so marked and sealed in the image of God as his counterpart, was necessarily clothed in a way that represented the true image of nature. Therefore, it is called the second world or small world; it contains everything that is in the big world, and there is nothing existing in the latter that does not also truly exist within the human organism. In it are contained all the elements (principles), each principle according to its own qualities; in it resides the ethereal. Astral body, vehicle of your soul, corresponding to the firmament of the world; in it resides the vegetative power of plants, the principle of sensation, manifested in the animal kingdom, the divine spirit, divine reason and divine mind. All this is contained in man, joined together in one unity and belonging to him by divine right. Therefore, the Bible calls man “the whole creation,” and in its microcosm aspect, it not only contains all parts of the world, but also contains and comprehends divinity itself. — Cornelius Agrippa