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Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek
schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos. It
may have begun with Democritus in the 5th century B.C. or with Pythagoras and
is a philosophical conception that runs through Socrates, and Plato and through
to the Renaissance. With Pythagoras, the discovery of the golden ratio and its philosophical
conception called the Golden mean, the Greeks saw that this golden ratio is
repeated in all parts of the ordered universe both large and small. The Greeks
were very concerned with a rational explanation of everything and saw this
repetition of the golden mean as a pattern that was reproduced throughout
reality. It is a product of the ancient Greek mentality of seeing reality as a
whole and noticing patterns that are repeated throughout all the levels of
reality. In short, it is the recognition that the same traits appear in
entities of many different sizes. This
is a representation of the idea that one molecule vibrating spreads out to a
huge Tsunami which wipes out everything in its immense path.
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the Microcosm