So what we perceive or feel is this combination of the Eternally Formed and the Eternally Formless. The theory of microcosm and macrocosm, i.e. The microcosmmacrocosm analogy (or, equivalently, macrocosmmicrocosm analogy) refers to a historical view which posited a structural similarity between the human being (the microcosm, i.e., the small order or the small universe) and the cosmos as a whole (the macrocosm, i.e., the great order or the great universe ). This dual aspect of the Universal Soul is eternal. MICROCOSM and MACROCOSM in pre-Islamic Iranian thought. Therefore, in the beginning was the Word etc. For example, a chapter in a novel is a microcosm (small world) whereas the entire novel is a macrocosm (large world) whereby the small world is contained within the large world. This covering of the one by the other is analogous to the relation between an idea and the word expressing it: they are one and the same and it is only by a mental abstraction that one can distinguish them. The concepts of MICROCOSM and MACROCOSM can be also applied to literature. Shivâ is embracing Shiva: this is not a fancy.
The central roundel is the archetypal macrocosm from which emerges the microcosm, which are the many beauties of the universe and God’s creation. Just as the individual soul is encased in the living body, so is the universal Soul in the Living Prakriti - the objective universe. Even the Cross consists of four pointswhich is why Byzantine churches were formed as squares with a Greek cross inscribed in them.
The microcosm and the macrocosm are built on the same plan. This article takes the minor mundus the idea of the human as a lesser world patterned after the greater, cosmic one as a point of departure for exploring medieval debates about what it meant to be an embodied human that stood simultaneously apart from and yet within the natural world. 250.)After his experience of the macrocosm within the microcosm while absorbed in meditation under the peepul tree at Kakrighat, in 1890, Swami Vivekananda jotted down in Bengali fragments of his realization in his notebook.
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