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action. To obtain a correct idea of the construction of 

 the Microcosm, we should know how the Macrocosm is 

 constructed; we must look upon man as an integral 

 part of universal Nature, and not as something separate 

 or different from the latter. The earth nourishes the 

 physical body, and the astral body is nourished by the 

 astral light, and as the former hungers and thirsts for 

 the elements of the earth, so the latter longs for the 

 influences which come from the astral plane. There are 

 many thousands of * magnets ' in the constitution of man ; 

 good attracts good, evil attracts evil ; good improves the 

 good, and causes it to be better ; evil attracts evil, and is 

 rendered worse thereby. Innumerable are the Egos in 

 man ; in him are angels and devils, heaven and hell, 

 the whole of the animal creation, the vegetable and 

 mineral kingdom ; and as the individual little man may 

 be diseased, so the great universal man has his diseases, 

 which manifest themselves as the ills that affect humanity 

 as a whole. Upon this fact is based the prediction of 

 future events " {Paragran.), 



"Those who merely study and treat the effects of 

 disease are like persons who imagine that they can drive 

 the winter away by brushing the snow from the door. 

 It is not the snow which causes the winter, but the 

 winter is the cause of the snow. Those people have 

 departed from the light of reason and lost themselves 

 in idle vagaries, to the great detriment of the welfare of 

 humanity. Consider how great and how noble man is, 

 and that his visible form is merely the outgrowth of in- 

 visible powers. As it is outside of man, so is it inside, 

 and vice versd, for the outside and inside are essentially 

 one thing, one constellation, one influence. It is the 

 Limlus in which the whole of creation is hidden. He who 

 knows only the external form of man, and not the power 

 by which it is produced, knows nothing but an illusion ; 

 his science is illusive, only fit to impose upon the 

 ignorant" {De Astronomia). 



