Hall had called man’s relationship to the macrocosm and microcosm as, “Man the Grand Symbol of the Mysteries.” As reflected in the title From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as well as general patterns and regional developments in Northeast Africa are discussed. The MACROCOSM represents the universe with its physical, visible and subtle, invisible aspects. The MICROCOSM represents the human being with all it’s vehicles or bodies, both visible and invisible. The Swiss German Renaissance physician, alchemist, and occultist, Paracelsus had said, “Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements and so he is their quintessence.”ģ3rd Degree Freemason, Manly P. The MACROCOSM and MICROCOSM notions are introduced by HERMES TRISMEGISTOS in his Emerald Plate, the initiator of Alchemy. The term Macrocosm/microcosm is a Greek compound of μακρο- “Macro-” and μικρο- “Micro-,” for “large” and “small,” and the word κόσμος kósmos which means “order” as well as “world” or “ordered world.” These facts are related to us by the great Hermes Trismegistus who had written, “ As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.” The macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek Neo-Platonic Gnostic view of the secret patterns of our universe in which nature, man and all life are alchemically reproduced in all levels of the cosmos, from the largest scale (macrocosm or universe-level) all the way down to the smallest scale (microcosmor sub- sub-atomic or even metaphysical-level).