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Macrocosm

noun
1.
Everything that exists anywhere.  Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, universe, world.  "The biggest tree in existence"



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"Macrocosm" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wisdom of Solomon (viii. 19 and 20), where it is written: "A good soul fell to my lot. Nay rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled." The Nous is in fact the god within, and it bears to the microcosm Man the relation which the infinite God bears to the macrocosm.[249] Indeed, it is the Logos descended from above, but yearning to return to its true abode. Thus Philo sings its ...
— Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria • Norman Bentwich

... that building," he went on, waving his hand to designate the church; "the scriptures, theology, the history of the human race, set forth in broad outline. Thanks to the science of symbolism a pile of stones may be a macrocosm. ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... even the poet's imaginative energy, are but moments—that old dream of the anima mundi, the mother of all things and their grave, in which some had desired to lose themselves, and others had become indifferent to the distinctions of good and evil. It would come, sometimes, like the sign of the macrocosm to Faust in his cell: the network of man and nature was seen to be pervaded by a common, universal life: a new, bold thought lifted him above the furrow, above the green turf of the Westmoreland churchyard, to a world altogether different in its vagueness and vastness, and the ...
— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater

... fragments, which then, for ever isolated one from another, ... must strike out for themselves on straight courses, with only side branches. On the contrary, owing to bi-sexual reproduction (amphimixis), the image of the macrocosm is ... reflected as a microcosm in each part; and the macrocosm resolves itself into a thousand microcosms.... Thus the individuals, while remaining independent, are materially and continuously interconnected, like strawberry plants whose runners are ...
— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland

... hand implies the reality of the soul and on the other the reality of the external world, and which itself is the vision of a real concrete personality. The individual is thus disclosed as something more than the universal, the microcosm as something more than the macrocosm, and any living personality as something more than any ...
— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys



Words linked to "Macrocosm" :   world, closed universe, galaxy, natural order, extragalactic nebula, extraterrestrial object, cosmos, natural object, estraterrestrial body, universe, nature, heavenly body, celestial body



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