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  • "It must be emphasized that the progressions in [the figure above] relate to the macrocosmos, that is, more precisely, the universal, external and objective - as it were - basis of physical/physiological processes … [Whereas] the implications of elements and colors on the specific level of the human being, whose form and functions - physical, physiological, psychological and mental/moral - constantly interact with the macrocosmos.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2009

  • Together these two mandalic forms depict the form of the cosmos as a dynamic process interrelating and uniting the transcendent and the mundane, the enlightened and the ignorant, Buddha and man, macrocosmos and microcosmos, matter and mind, pattern and wisdom.

    Laughter 2009

  • The three aspects interpenetrate to make-up the macrocosmos while in their non-duality with cosmic constituents, they become manifest through successful Shingon practice and in one's consequent enlightenment.

    Laughter 2009

  • The theory that will truely unite the microcosmos with the macrocosmos is still in research.

    Science Friday tomorrow -- Monkey Girl, Flock of Dodos - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • So in the heavens, as in a macrocosmos, there are two favorable stars, two unpropitious, two luminaries and Mercury undecided and indifferent.

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

  • So in the heavens, as in a macrocosmos, there are two favorable stars, two unpropitious, two luminaries and Mercury undecided and indifferent.

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

  • This macrocosmos both brings to light and stifles the character peculiarities of the microcosmos and the character of no man, as we see or know it, ever expresses in any complete manner his innate possibilities.

    The Foundations of Personality 1921

  • The genuine poetic pantheism, which, for all his melancholy and sentimentality, was the spring of Werther's feeling, is seen in loftier and more comprehensive form in the first part of _Faust_, when Faust opens the book and sees the sign of macrocosmos:

    The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893

  • You could notice the resemblance of the microcosmos with the macrocosmos ...

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows guest6067361 2009

  • I like the concept, I think it's WONDERFUL, it represents ane entire macrocosmos of idealistic, platonic and even volatile desires and a social comment of materialism ...

    Apartment Therapy Main 2009

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