This phrase has religious meaning as well. It is from The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, part of the Hermetica, and originated in the Vedas, the sacred writings of Hinduism and Buddhism.
To quote Wikipedia, "In accordance with the various levels of reality (physical, emotional, and mental), this relates that what happens on any level happens on every other. This is, however, more often used in the sense of the microcosm and the macrocosm. The microcosm is oneself, and the macrocosm is the universe. The macrocosm is as the microcosm, and vice versa; within each lies the other, and through understanding one (usually the microcosm) you can understand the other."
As it is on Heaven, so it is on Earth. This means that man's actions on Earth reflect God's in Heaven and vice-versa for better or worse. God is the macrocosm; man is the microcosm. The two are the same and are both inside and outside each other. Through understanding yourself, you understand God and vice-versa. The astral plane is connected to the physical plane; the two are intertwined seamlessly. In the physical plane you are man; in the astral, you are God.
This is a base theory for witchcraft, magic, and alchemy. Mind and body are bound; the body is bound to the world; so the mind is bound to the world, too. What you imagine and desire in your mind, in the astral plane, manifests in the physical world through your actions and energies. As a human you can use your divinity in magic, but when you unite microcosm with macrocosm, human with divine, yourself with God, that's when your power will be greatest.
Learn as much about yourself as you can until you understand yourself better. Acknowledge what parts of you need changing. Analyze your past and revisit experiences you may still need to heal from. This can be painful, leading to tears and depression. You're emptying yourself of old structures--old beliefs, old fears, old pain, outdated ways of thinking, darkness. You're letting ego slip away, and it's a kind of death that is going to bring mourning. It's a necessary change of perspective; it's how you gain the beginnings of the insight you will need to embrace divinity.
Try to start wrapping your mind around universal concepts like karma, destiny, morality, the Wheel of Time/Fortune; learn to see yourself as both seperate and the same as God, the Universe, other people. Listen to your tuition. Get control of your mind and get your thoughts in the right place. As you do this, and then turn to taking control of your world, your feelings will slowly follow suit. Fix your habits; repair what's broken in your life. Right the wrongs of the past. Apologize to others, to yourself; forgive others, and yourself. Once your world is under control, start changing the world.
No amount of research can lead you to God; it's an understanding, a light, an inner peace that just sort of dawns upon you as you realize what's true and learn to be the you that you were meant to be and to see things as they really are in the grand scheme of things. That's what I hear, at least. I'm certainly not saying I'm there yet or ever will be. I think I'm in that emptying out, getting control, Dark Night of the Soul place. I'm learning theory, but it hasn't fully sank in into any kind of divine awareness. But I think it will. I think everything will just snap into place eventually, all at once--not in my life, but in my head, my heart, and my soul.
To quote Wikipedia, "In accordance with the various levels of reality (physical, emotional, and mental), this relates that what happens on any level happens on every other. This is, however, more often used in the sense of the microcosm and the macrocosm. The microcosm is oneself, and the macrocosm is the universe. The macrocosm is as the microcosm, and vice versa; within each lies the other, and through understanding one (usually the microcosm) you can understand the other."
As it is on Heaven, so it is on Earth. This means that man's actions on Earth reflect God's in Heaven and vice-versa for better or worse. God is the macrocosm; man is the microcosm. The two are the same and are both inside and outside each other. Through understanding yourself, you understand God and vice-versa. The astral plane is connected to the physical plane; the two are intertwined seamlessly. In the physical plane you are man; in the astral, you are God.
This is a base theory for witchcraft, magic, and alchemy. Mind and body are bound; the body is bound to the world; so the mind is bound to the world, too. What you imagine and desire in your mind, in the astral plane, manifests in the physical world through your actions and energies. As a human you can use your divinity in magic, but when you unite microcosm with macrocosm, human with divine, yourself with God, that's when your power will be greatest.
Learn as much about yourself as you can until you understand yourself better. Acknowledge what parts of you need changing. Analyze your past and revisit experiences you may still need to heal from. This can be painful, leading to tears and depression. You're emptying yourself of old structures--old beliefs, old fears, old pain, outdated ways of thinking, darkness. You're letting ego slip away, and it's a kind of death that is going to bring mourning. It's a necessary change of perspective; it's how you gain the beginnings of the insight you will need to embrace divinity.
Try to start wrapping your mind around universal concepts like karma, destiny, morality, the Wheel of Time/Fortune; learn to see yourself as both seperate and the same as God, the Universe, other people. Listen to your tuition. Get control of your mind and get your thoughts in the right place. As you do this, and then turn to taking control of your world, your feelings will slowly follow suit. Fix your habits; repair what's broken in your life. Right the wrongs of the past. Apologize to others, to yourself; forgive others, and yourself. Once your world is under control, start changing the world.
No amount of research can lead you to God; it's an understanding, a light, an inner peace that just sort of dawns upon you as you realize what's true and learn to be the you that you were meant to be and to see things as they really are in the grand scheme of things. That's what I hear, at least. I'm certainly not saying I'm there yet or ever will be. I think I'm in that emptying out, getting control, Dark Night of the Soul place. I'm learning theory, but it hasn't fully sank in into any kind of divine awareness. But I think it will. I think everything will just snap into place eventually, all at once--not in my life, but in my head, my heart, and my soul.
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