a microcosm...

"Man has been truly termed a 'microcosm,'

or little world in himself,

and the structure of his body should be studied not only by those who wish to become doctors,

but by those who wish to attain to a more intimate knowledge of God."



Al-Ghazali
in Whitall N. Perry
_A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom_
Varanasi: Indica, 1998, (1971), p. 927