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  Macrocosm and microcosm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of reality.
Furthermore, there is a tight interrelationship between the macrocosm and the microcosm in the human sphere.
The great enigma of alchemy is the mystery between the macrocosm and microcosm.
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 microcosm
Microcosm, Inc., is a California-based corporation specializing in space mission analysis and design, spacecraft orbit and attitude control systems, space...
Microcosm Publishing is an independent publisher and distributor based in Portland, OR.
Microcosm is a well-established company that has specialised in the production of hardware and software based copy-protection systems since 1979.
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 Re: Tantric Gems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Macrocosmic Citta (expressed universe) is sometimes expressed in the form of crude matter, sometimes as unit minds created as a result of the process of clash and cohesion within the material structure.
Hence the Macrocosm in God's subtle way, and is inseparably associated with God's expressed physical manifestations, and remains as the untainted Witnessing Consciousness, as the Supreme Knower and Subjectivity, of all subjectivities.
Although the knowledge of microcosms is carried through the cruder nerve-cells, yet they are unable to carry the totality of the knowledge of the causal mind.
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 New Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The universe consists of a Mahabrahmanda, or grand Kosmos, and of numerous Brihatbrahmanda, or macrocosms evolved from it.
In the latter are heavenly bodies and beings, which are microcosms reflecting on a minor scale the greater worlds which evolve them.
The witness within is the purusha without, for the personal soul of the microcosm corresponds to the cosmic soul (hiranyagarbha) in the macrocosm.
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 Macrocosm and Microcosm - Rudolf Steiner Anthroposophy book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In Macrocosm and Microcosm, Steiner traverses a wide range of esoteric spiritual subjects, illustrating in detail many of the intricate relationships which exist between the spiritual-cosmic world and human-sensory experience of the world.
Not only the subjects themselves are explored, but also the transitions in consciousness which must be achieved in order to arrive at concrete knowledge of the higher worlds which are dimly reflected in the human subconscious on the one hand, and are masked by external nature on the other.
Mirror images of the Macrocosm in man. Sense impressions arise by a portion of the Elementary World being held back.
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 Environmental Cosmology: Organizing Priciples. © 2001 - 2005 by Kenneth D. McRitchie
In astrology, the microcosm is the life of the individual subject, and embodies the directional experience of hierarchy and equality.
Because of this temporal parity, the individual’s microcosms and macrocosms are intimately related.
Because this microcosm belongs within the macrocosmic sphere of the observer, the behavior of this micro world and its macro world is synchronous and coevolutionary.
www.encosm.net /principles.htm   (5881 words)

  
 Alchemy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In other words, the human body (the microcosm) is affected by the exterior world (the macrocosm), which includes the heavens through astrology, and the earth through the elements.
It has been speculated that a riddle from the Emerald Tablet—"it was carried in the womb by the wind"—refers to the distillation of oxygen from saltpeter—a process that was unknown in Europe until its (re)discovery by Sendivogius in the 17th century.
He took an approach different from those before him, using this analogy not in the manner of soul-purification but in the manner that humans must have certain balances of minerals in their bodies, and that certain illnesses of the body had chemical remedies that could cure them.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alchemy   (7078 words)

  
 THE DRAGON OF THE ALCHEMISTS-CHAPTER FIVE-MICROCOSM AND MACROCOSM
The Astrologers who would define the constitution, complexion, and mental attributes of a person, by the aspect of the heavens at the moment of birth (and that is a matter even yet debated), and who were prepared to forecast fortunate and unfortunate times and periods, were in a majority.
Man, however, as the little universe, "the Microcosm", was thought to be within himself of the nature of the greater universe, and patterned in his mind, had, or might have an equivalent world wherein existed sun, moon, and stars.
The warmth which animates the human microcosm is part of the same substance which vivifies the universe, the reason which guides us partakes of the nature of those luminaries which enlighten it.
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 Why does astrology work?
The macrocosm reflects the microcosm, and vice versa.
The principle upon which astrology is built is that the patterns found in the vastness of the universe are but a larger exposition of the same patterns found within an individual.
The relationships between the macrocosm (the universe, the stars and planets) and the microcosm (the individual) can not only be known, it can be worked with to free the individual from the chains of imprisonment in the material world.
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 Macrocosm and Microcosm by Rudolf Steiner, A Review
The path of the mystic is into the Microcosm and the path of the ecstatic is into the Macrocosm.
The second duo is the Ego and astral bodies that expand out into the Macrocosm at night while we are asleep and return to the Microcosm of the human body upon waking.
To summarize: in expanding into the Macrocosm, the ecstatic's Ego becomes evanescent or rarified, whereas in shrinking into the Microcosm, the mystic's Ego becomes concentrated or densified.
www.doyletics.com /arj/mamrve.htm   (5864 words)

  
 Gilder's Microcosm
Gilder traces the microcosm to the invention of the transistor by William Shockley of the ATandT Bell Laboratories, and the quantum physics that led to Shockley's invention.
But one of the key discoveries of the microcosm was that complexity grows exponentially only off the chip.
I know that numbers like this are commonly thrown around, but this future microcosm is bound to happen (it's in the physics) and it means that individuals will have almost limitless and cheap computing power on their desks or in their hands.
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 Activities Of The Macrocosm In The Microcosm
Every point in the macrocosm is a center of action and reaction for the whole ocean of Prâna; and every one of these centers has its own atmosphere with its special limit.
In the zone of earth-life, every Truti of the ecliptical space is an individual organism whose life-phases change with the momentary variations of the Tattvic vibrations as the earth and her sisters planets whirl in their orbits.
Man is a microcosmic sphere of energy exactly duplicating or reflecting the macrocosmic sphere, of which he is as it were a single cell, made up of millions of atoms held together by vibratory law.
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 Microcosms - Macrocosm and Microcosm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The relationship between the collection and its collector was seen as having a deeper significance, however; the human body itself was believed to be a microcosm, an encapsulation of cosmic dynamics.
The curiosity cabinet, therefore, served as a mirror reflecting the viewer as well as the outside world, mediating between the microcosm of the viewer and the macrocosm of the universe.
Ultimately, the Curiosity Cabinet was anthropocentric both conceptually and practically: the true center of the collection was its viewer, who could survey and comprehend the entire assemblage and, by extension, the world itself.
www.microcosms.ihc.ucsb.edu /essays/003.html   (301 words)

  
 Man as Microcosm and Macrocosm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Man is a little world (microcosm) who is analogous to the whole created world (macrocosm).
One such example might be the use of a bee hive metaphor to describe the English commonwealth in Henry V 1.2.183 ff.
The analogy beween microcosm and macrocosm can be used to glorify man as the epitome of all larger frameworks or to blame larger breakdowns in the cosmic order on man himself.
virtual.park.uga.edu /cdesmet/class/britcult/monarchy/body.htm   (154 words)

  
 Ancient Wisdom Tradition - Theosophy.
Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm; the god on earth is built on the pattern of the god in nature.
It could be, and was at first so used and applied to the Macrocosm, after which it descended to the Microcosm, or Man. There was, then, the purely intellectual and metaphysical, or the "inner Science," and the as purely materialistic or "surface science," both of which could be expounded by and contained in the Decade.
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.
www.blavatsky.net /talk/bnbasic/macrocosm-microcosm.htm   (739 words)

  
 Microcosm/macrocosm
The head* was the sun-king-lion-eagle-gold of the little world of the human, the godlike part which was the seat of reason.
Thus, in the microcosm of the body was figured the macrocosm of the kingdom, and of the universe itself.
The beehive, with its orderly division of roles and a single queen bee, was an ideal symbol as a microcosm of the ordered human state.
ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/ideas/macromicro.html   (271 words)

  
 Lindisfarne Books - Macrocosm and Microcosm
The world behind the tapestry of sensory perceptions; human life between macrocosm and microcosm.
Initiation in the “northern mysteries”; the necessity of suppressing the ego; conscious assent into the macrocosm and the higher worlds; the world of archetypal images.
The macrocosm mirrored in the human being; the nervous system as an inner solar system; the image of purified blood and the conquest of our lower nature in the symbol of the Rose Cross.
www.lindisfarne.org /detail.html?session=9489676b670359d7723213d1a6150336&id=0880102004   (387 words)

  
 Amazon.com: All Products / macrocosms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Microcosm and macrocosm;: An approach to the synthesis of the real by Michael M Hare (Unknown Binding - 1966)
The key to the true Quabbalah: The Quabbalist as a sovereign in the microcosm and the macrocosm by Franz Bardon (Unknown Binding - 1986)
The macrocosm and microcosm: Or, the universe without and the universe within, being an unfolding of the plan of creation and the correspondence of truths,...
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 Rise To Consciousness Part4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The eternal, universal principle of the relationship between the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, and their combined relationship to the mythological archetypes is one that is as indispensable now in understanding the nature and existence of mankind as it was during the rise of the great philosophers of the Renaissance.
The idea of man as a Microcosm, representative both externally and internally of the earth or the universe, is idealistic of a primitive, original state of consciousness.
It is the mythological language of the soul and it’s rhythm and meter harmonizes with the cosmic dance of the universe bonding together in common understanding the Macrocosm and the Microcosm.
www.sangraal.com /library/rtc4.htm   (2124 words)

  
 Iranica.com - MICROCOSM and MACROCOSM
The theory of microcosm and macrocosm, i.e., of the correspondence between the different parts of the human being and those of the cosmos, is no mere mental game.
The origins of the theory probably lay outside Iran and should be sought in the west, in Greece, or in the east, in India.
It may be stated that the Iranians received the Greek doctrine of microcosm and macrocosm from the Manicheans and perhaps also from Syriac sources.
www.iranica.com /articles/ot_grp5/ot_microcosm_20040616.html   (1793 words)

  
 SivaSakti.COM - Glossary : macrocosm
The MACROCOSM and MICROCOSM notions are introduced by HERMES TRISMEGISTOS in his "Emerald Plate", the initiator of Alchemy.
The MICROCOSM represents the human being with all it's "vehicles" or "bodies", both visible and invisible.
The MACROCOSM represents the universe with its physical, visible and subtle, invisible aspects.
sivasakti.com /glossary/macrocosm.html   (504 words)

  
 The principles underlying macrocosm and microcosm (from Indian philosophy) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The principles underlying macrocosm and microcosm (from Indian philosophy) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Though the objective and the subjective, the macrocosm (universal) and the microcosm (individual), came to be identified according to their true essences, attempts were made to correlate different macrocosmic principles with corresponding microcosmic principles.
More results on "The principles underlying macrocosm and microcosm (from Indian philosophy)" when you join.
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 AS/SA Nº 8, p.465; Flinker: "John Donne and the Anthropomorphic Map"
Renaissance commonplaces about the connections between the microcosm and the macrocosm take on greater relevance when read in the context of what Gandelman called "The Mediterranean as a Sea of Sin" in light of an anthropomorphic map by Opicinus de Canistris (1984, Fig.
Eroticism is a crucial element in Donne's ludic perception of the correspondence between macrocosm and microcosm.
That is, the poetic intensity of the erotic connection between Hemingway's microcosmic lovers is intensified by the perception that their union is somehow acknowledged by the macrocosm.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /french/as-sa/ASSA-No8/NF3.html   (559 words)

  
 Ganesha Gaja Musaka Indra Shiva
The principle of all the classifications through which the relations between different orders of things, between the macrocosm and the microcosm, can be understood is called the Lord-of-Categories [or Ganapati, or Ganesha]....
the identity of the macrocosm and the microcosm...
Hence number is easily seen as the common element of all forms, the all-pervading unity of all substances.
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 Microcosm - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
For the definition of the word microcosm, see here.
This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Microcosm contains research on
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 Search Results for microcosm - Encyclopædia Britannica
The conception of the universe common to all Chinese philosophy is neither materialistic nor animistic (a belief system centring on soul substances); it can be called magical or even alchemical.
Though the objective and the subjective, the macrocosm (universal) and the microcosm (individual), came to be identified according to their true essences, attempts were made to correlate different...
The diversified nature of its economy—strength in manufacturing, agriculture, finance, mining, transportation, government, and services—makes Illinois a microcosm of the national economy.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Microcosm and Macrocosm
Microcosm and Macrocosm, two philosophical terms, opposite in meaning, used to explain the relationship between human beings and the universe.
As adept yogi approach Kāivalya, they are supposed to acquire certain remarkable capacities.
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Spiritual science of the inner life of the macrocosm and the microcosm: Containing a graphic description of internal spiritual visions, the relation of...
An evolutionary microcosm: Pleistocene and recent history of the land snail P. (Poecilozonites) in Bermuda (Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University)
Nature Man, the Macrocosm and Microcosm, Eternity and Time, Explained According to the Religion of Christ, by Means of the Secret Symbols: Nature Man the Macrocosm...
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 Magick in Theory and Practice - Chapter 8
It is as in optics; the angles of incidence and reflection are equal.
This equilibrium is affirmed by the magician in arranging the Temple.
His instinct is a subconscious assertion of the structural identity of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm.
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 fut6.
Concerning the spheres of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm
As for what we said in this chapter concerning the spheres of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm which is man, by it I mean the worlds of its totalities and genera.
I have made the spheres of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm reciprocal.
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