Abstract
In an extraordinary page of his Homilies on Leviticus, Origen develops in an unusual way the great theme of the correspondence between man and cosmos. There is no need to seek victims to offer to God from among visible animals: we can all find them in ourselves, in our souls. The human is a little world in which the cosmos is reflected point by point: ‘Do not be surprised to hear me say all that is within you; you should understand that you are another world in miniature (in parvo) and that in you there is a sun, there is a moon, there are stars.’ In this singular passage the human soul is seen as a mirror of the visible world, which in its turn is nothing other than a vast allegory of the divine. In an image that is not without astrological resonance, the nub of the correspondence between the great world and the small one is situated in the heavenly bodies.
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