ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE MACROCOSM original: "DE MACROCOSMI PRINCIPIIS." The Macrocosm refers to the "great world" or the entire universe as a structured whole.

Or in the form of the Sun; for under this shape the Heathens, and especially the Eastern peoples, worship GOD.

An engraving of a radiant sun with a human face at its center. The face is depicted with serene, humanoid features including eyes, nose, and mouth. Radiating from the center are thirty-two primary rays: sixteen long, straight triangular rays alternating with sixteen wavy, flame-like rays. The background is filled with numerous fine, straight lines representing a diffuse halo of light.

From GOD all spiritual and invisible splendor is derived, and all things are inwardly illuminated by the same, no differently than how all visible and external brightness and brilliance proceeds from the Sun itself; for just as the Sun is in material things, so GOD is in spiritual things: the Emperor holding a fiery scepter.

According to Sidrac likely referring to the medieval "Book of Sidrach," a popular philosophical and scientific encyclopedia: the wise man perceives three things in the essence of the Sun, namely the Sun itself, its light or brightness, and its life-giving heat. They relate the Sun to GOD the Father, the brightness to the Son, and the heat to the Holy Spirit; the Splendor arises and is derived immediately from the single Solar body, while the effect of heat and its benevolent virtue descends from both.

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