Humanity Mirrors the Cosmos:

 Example of the non-dualistic Hindu View

 

Infinite - the pervasive Brahman

Celestial - Trimurti,  Gods and Goddesses

Intermediate - ghosts, departed souls in limbo, the psychokinetic world

Terrestrial - natural, physical, finite, temporal world

- maya

Body - biological, physical, finite, temporal senses

Mind - ideas, personality and gunas

Soul - unique jivas

Spirit - the pervasive Atman

 

modified from image in Huston Smith's Forgotten Truth: The Primordial Tradition 1976:62

 

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