Outline of the Zodiacale Man, Manuscript Hebrew of XIV the century

If we were to remind ourselves of the medieval culture by leafing through typical images in a book, it is almost certain that we could see some curious human diagram in which every single body part would be associated to a constellation (Ram-head, Taurus-neck, Lion-thorax, etc).

Dantesque outline, Michelangelo Cactani, “the Matter of the Divine Commedia” of Dante Alighieri, 1855

If we read the most famous work of Dante Alighieri, the Divine Commedia, we could notice that to every single planet would be associated with a spiritual hierarchy, until reaching the zodiacal associations of the Cherubs and the Seraphim from which it would be possible to contemplate the holy trinity.

Most modern men do not give much importance to such representazions and associations. Nowadays the celestial bodies (stars and planets), are only considered in their material aspect - typical for the science of our age whic is able only toconsider that which is measurable. The interplanetary distances with all the parameters necessary in order to describe the motions of spin of planets around the Sun, or the brightness of stars are what is studies.

A similar culture teaches that the constellations can be considered in the same way of optical illusions formed from stars that in reality possess various distances from the Earth and that they only appear near one the other for an effect of flattening caused from the inaccuracy of the human sight.

It is our opinion that man must grasp new concepts in addition to the perceivable emanations of the celestial world with the aim of reaching a new conception of astronomy.

A first clue in this direction is given to us from the part of the Bible in which it says that man has been created in the image and likeness of God. We can easy intuit that man does not correspond to currently known mankind. We are in fact many, while in the Bible a single man is described. If all men were the image of God, they would be consequently all equal.

Previously we have pointed to the correspondence between constellations and parts of the human body, but if instead of observing the human body microcosmically, we turned upside down associating to every constellation in the sky the relative corporeal part, we could notice a great “archetypal man” in the zodiac, that man called by various names in the various spiritual movements, such as: the First Adam, Adam Kadmon, Lord, Adonai, Universal Being.

It is the created man, than in its turn he has shaped the inhabitants of the planet Earth. It is that Father to which we address each time we pronounce the prayer taught to us from Jesus: the “our father”.

The sensitive aspect of stars and planets in this way becomes the perceptive instrument to which associating spiritual concepts and ideas in order to create a spiritual astronomy that we will call the ASTROSOFIA.