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including man, have the same origin, and each thing is 

 attracted to its own original by reason of this mutual 

 relationship.^ 



" If man were not formed in such a manner and out 

 of the whole ring and of all its parts, but if each man 

 were made out of a separate piece of the world essentially 

 distinct from others, he would not be capable to receive 

 the influences residing in the whole. But the soul of 

 the great world has the same divisions, proportions, and 

 parts as the soul of man, and the material body of man 

 receives the material body of Nature in the same sense 

 as the son receives ^ the blood ' of his father." 



A relationship similar to the one existing between the 

 Macrocosm and the Microcosm exists between man and 

 woman, and between woman and the uterus, and between 

 the uterus and the foetus. 



" The whole of the Microcosm is potentially contained 

 in the Liquor Vitce (Prana), a nerve-fluid comparable to 

 the fluidic brain-substance, and in which is contained 

 the nature, quality, character, and essence of beings, and 

 which ethereal life-fluid in man may be looked upon as an 

 invisible or hidden man — so to say, his ethereal counter- 

 part or reflection " {De Generatio Hominis). 



** From this nerve-aura or liquor vitae, in the process 

 of the generation of man, the semen separates itself in 

 a manner comparable to the separation of the foam or 

 froth from a fermenting liquid, or as the quintessence 

 (the fifth principle) of all things separates itself from 



^ Aboriginal spiritual Man (male and female in one) has been created 

 by the will of God being active within divine wisdom ; but the woman 

 was made out of a "rib" (a power) of man. Therefore man and woman 

 are not equals, except as far as their animal constitution goes. " The 

 matrix from which man originated was the whole world (the Ivmbut) ; but 

 woman came out of the matrix of man. Thus man made unto himself a 

 mairtx, the woman, who is now to him as much as a whole world, and the 

 spirit of the Lord is within her, informing and fructifying her. No one 

 has seen it; but nevertheless it is in the matrix of woman. Therefore 

 they ought not be used for whoredom ; for the spirit is in them, coining 

 from the Lord and returning to Him " {Paramiramy iv. ). 



