microcosm, n.All

A Microcosm (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a second little world, and thou art one: the sun and the moon are within thee, and also the stars.

A Microcosm (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not the empirical man, as the medievals thought, but the indescribable totality of the psychic man — the intuition that the total man is as big as the world.

A Microcosm (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠man pictured as a little world, bones as mountains and blood vessels as rivers, a remnant of the original psychic identity of man and cosmos from a twilight state of consciousness.

A Microcosm (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the "lesser world" that man is, made of the four elements and holding the figure of heaven, earth, sun and moon, so that to know his heaven and earth is to know the whole of nature.

A Microcosm (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠man as "the little God of the world," the fusion of three worlds about whom all things revolve — a thought that ruled the world-picture until natural science proved man's subordination to causes.