Dünyanın Doğum Haritası ve İnsanın Küçük Evren Oluşu

it behooves us to know in the first place, Lollianus, our glory, that according to the image and likeness of the world, that God, the fabricator of man, with nature showing the way, perfected the form and stature of man, and his whole substance. For he so composed the body of man, like that of the world, from a mixture of the four elements—namely fire, water, air, and earth—that a tempered conjunction of all these might adorn the living creature after the form of divine imitation; and he so set forth man by the artifice of divine fabrication that, by the compulsion of nature, he brought together the power and substance of all elements in a small body, so that he might prepare a lodging—fragile though it be, yet similar to the world—for that divine spirit which descended from the heavenly mind to sustain the mortal body. For this reason, the five stars, and also the fiery Sun and Moon, sustain man, as if he were a certain lesser world, by their eternal movement, so that the living creature which was made in imitation of the world might be governed by a similar substance of divinity. Wherefore those divine men, worthy of every admiration, Petosiris and Nechepso, whose wisdom reached the very secrets of divinity, also handed down to us the birth chart of the world by the divine mastery of science, to show and demonstrate that man, formed according to the nature and likeness of the world, is sustained by the eternal companions of perpetuity by the same principles through which the world itself is ruled and contained.