ABSTRACT
Similarly, each of the parts of man’s body corresponded to a different sign of the zodiac. The heart corresponded to the sun; the head, seat of the soul and the faculty of reasoning, corresponded to the empyrean heaven; the lower abdomen, site of the anus and the genitals, corresponded to the earth, the site of generation and corruption. It was far from coincidental, therefore, that man was composed of four humorsyellow bile, blood, phlegm, and black bile-which corresponded to the four elements of fire, air, water, and earth, respectively. Man was also seen as the link between the material realm and the realm of spirit, being the only creature, apart from the universe as a whole, to be composed of both body and immaterial soul. Pursuing the analogy in the opposite direction, cosmic laws were seen as projections of those laws that governed human nature.
