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...all things, man, that is the final Technurgema artful creation of divine creation. Man comprehends all things in his complexity, and he himself carries all things in himself: For from whatever man was made, that he also carries and contains in himself. He was made from the world, and he comprehends the world in himself, and is comprehended by the World. The great world therefore conspires with the small world by a most tight bond of unity and necessity, whence the wisest antiquity, by perspicacious counsel, called man a microcosm (small world) by a far different and more divine interpretation than we see being done by many today, who weigh the mysteries of the ancients and old wise men with very thick and slothful negligence. Among the wise Philosophers, a certain younger one says thus: just as the highest Philosophy is to know oneself correctly, which illuminates the mind, so the extreme baseness and most pestilential disease of the mind is to be ignorant of oneself. To this responds Hermes Trismegistus, the most ancient of Philosophers: Ignorance, he says to his son Tatius, is the greatest enemy and primary avenger within everyone. The most learned Fernelius says: Man is the prince of all things which are contained by the law and empire of nature, and although he is a participant in divine and falling things, he enjoys the society of both, yet inflamed by an ardent desire for the higher things, he ought to sparingly follow those which are sordid, vile, and abject in the pursuit of beasts. That seems indeed execrable and detestable, if man allows the heavenly and divine part of himself which he has received to be either contaminated by the baseness of vices, or ensnared by the blandishments of pleasures, or overwhelmed by the care and solicitude of mortals: or if, being oppressed, he cannot at any time recreate himself and lift himself higher. For those who hold that course of life, such that they are borne along being ensnared by the blandishments of the senses of the Sun, seem no more excellent than mute animals:
Pliny, Book 8, Ch. 27. Stags push arrows out of their bodies by eating Dittany; when struck by a spider they eat crabs.

since beasts also seek and prepare the necessary provisions of life, and they have the greatest care for both themselves and their offspring, as also for pleasures. But what do the sacred things say? Woe to you man who neglect the immense patrimony and Talent and the deposit committed to you, the Treasure, either hidden in an earthen vessel, and do not notice that it is to be dug up: Do you not see God in yourself, whom the world does not see nor can receive, although he becomes more intimate to us than we are to ourselves, since the spirit of God dwells in the middle of our hearts. St. Augustine says: God wants to dwell nowhere more than in man where he is conspicuous. Gregory, Book 8: Man for contemplating his creator...