Macrocosm

Entertainment / Literature / Macrocosm: (Cf. Microcosm) The natural universe as a whole, including the biological realms of flora and fauna, weather, and celestial objects such as the sun, moon, and stars. See discussion under chain of being.
Search Google for Macrocosm:

Macrocosmic Orbit

Health / Tai Chi / Macrocosmic Orbit: The energy circuit through the legs to top of head and back down MORE

Microcosm

Entertainment / Literature / Microcosm: The human body. Renaissance thinkers believed that the human body was a 'little universe' that reflected changes in the macrocosm, or greater universe. (cf. Macrocosm) MORE

Correspondences

Entertainment / Literature / Correspondences: An integral part of the medieval and Renaissance model of the universe known as the 'Chain of Being.' The idea was that different links on the Chain of Being were interconnected and had a sort of symp MORE

The Body Politic

Entertainment / Literature / The Body Politic: The monarchial government, including all its citizens, its army, and its king. Political theory in the Elizabethan period thought of each kingdom as a 'body,' with the king functioning as its head. Ev MORE