The human body, like that of the universe, is considered to be a material expression of ten globes or spheres of light. Therefore man is called the Microcosm--the little world, built in the image of the great world of which he is a part. The Qabbalists also established a mysterious universal man with his head at A 1 and his feet at D 10. This is probably the secret significance of the great figure of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, with its head in the World of Atziluth, its arms and hands in the World of Briah, its generative system in the World of Yetzirah, and its legs and feet in the World of Assiah. This is the Grand Man of the Zohar, of whom Eliphas Levi writes:

The whole body of this world is as a man's body, for it is surrounded in its utmost circle with the stars and risen powers of nature; and in that...

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...

Though philosophers call man the microcosm, divines call him the macrocosm. In outward form thou art the microcosm, Seemingly the bough is the cause...