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Man and cosmos in the renaissance: 'the heavens within us' in a letter by Marsilio Ficino.

Diogenes

| August 01, 2005 | Faracovi, Ornella Pompeo | COPYRIGHT 2005 Sage Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In an extraordinary page of his Homilies on Leviticus, Origen develops in an unusual way the great theme of the correspondence between man and cosmos. There is no need to seek victims to offer to God from among visible animals: we can all find them in ourselves, in our souls. (1) The human is a little world in which the cosmos is reflected point by point: 'Do not be surprised to hear me say all that is within you; you should understand that you are another world in miniature (in parvo) and that in you there is a sun, there is a moon, there are stars.' (2) In this singular passage the human soul is seen as a mirror of the visible world, which in its turn is nothing other ...

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