...man enjoys the honor of participating
in everything.... He participates in
matter in his own subject, and in the elements
through his fourfold body; in plants through
his vegetable strength; in animals through
the life of the senses; in the heavens
through the ethereal spirit (...) in the angels
through his wisdom; in God through the epitomer
of everything (...) and just as God knows
everything, so man can also come to know
everything that can be known (..)
He can even direct the astral influences at his will.
~ Agrippa, Die magischen Werke, Wiesbaden edition, 1988
