The original Rosicrucians held to a theory generally discarded by men of science and now known as the microcosmic theory. Paracelsus was the most prominent exponent of this concept of universal order and relationship. He said, “As there are stars in the heavens, so there are stars within man, for there is nothing in the universe which has not its equivalent in the microcosm.” (the human body). In another place Paracelsus says, “Man derives his spirit from the constellations (fixed stars), his soul from the planets, and his body from the elements.”