The Macrocosm and the Microcosm

Tap a motif on the picture, or a line below. Its note opens under the line, with the reading its author gave it.

1. Primary motif
2. 1The Heavensthe rainbow ring that encloses both figures
3. Secondary motifs · 1
4. 2The King and the Queenthe crowned head above, and its mirrored image below

A crowned, bearded figure with arms spread inside a ring of rainbow colour, mirrored below by his own reflection, a red figure held between the two pairs of hands; a globe surmounted by a cross above and below; the Heavens as the central motif, the King and the Crown by eye. By eye

Hall, 1928 “Out of the great Sea of Eternity rise the head and shoulders of the Ancient and Holy One, whose inverted image is mirrored in the Deep.” The Secret Teachings of All Ages, plate caption.

Hall, 1928 “As the universe is the reflection of the Ancient One, so the human body is the reflection, or inverted image, of man's spirit.” The Secret Teachings of All Ages, plate caption.

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