CHAP. 4. Of the composition of the Microcosme, that is Man, from the Macro∣cosme, the great World
ADam the first parent of the whole humane kind, was pro∣duced and formed by the admirable wisdom, and workman∣ship of God, as to his soul and body of the slime, or dust of the earth; which slime or dust was such a Masse or matter, which had conjoyned and composed in it self the universall essence, nature, vertue and propriety of the whole greater World, and of all things which were therein. I say that Masse, slime or dust was a meer quintessence, extra∣cted from every part, from the whole frame of the whole world; from which slime or Masse, was made such a creature, with it's form ex∣cepted, was one and the same with the great world, of which it was produced. Hence that creature was called Man, who after∣wards his admirable creation & formation being revealed amongst the wise, was wont most fitly to be called the Microcosme, that is, the little, or lesse world.
The absolute description, and essentiall explication of this slime, dust or masse extracted from the whole macrocosme, we shall find every where abundantly and wonderfully declared, alone by The∣ophrastus Paracelsus in his most excellent writings.
Seeing therefore it is manifest, that every produced and compo∣sed thing, can take or assume his essence, nature and propriety from nothing els, but from that where of it is made and produced; which even that first Man, as an other and later World, made of the former World, by the Ens of that slime, is made pertaker of the same essence, nature & propriety, as the Macrocosme had in it self. For the whole great world existing and being compact in that quintessence of ex∣tracted slime, forthwith it followed, that the whole Macrocosme was complicitly collected and transposed into man, by divine for∣mation, the substance and nature of the Macrocosme remaining ne∣verthelesse safe and intire. For such is the condition in the universal production and generation of things, that every like of it self produ∣ceth his like, and that without destruction of its essence and nature.
Hence, that which hath its originall and derivation from God,