The life work of Schwaller de Lubicz was the two volume Temple of Man.  Following in his footsteps John Anthony West has been leading tours of Egypt, through the eyes of de Lubicz.  The Temple of man, also called the Temple at Luxor, is a massive esoteric initiatory chamber in Luxor Egypt.  Here are two videos, summarizing the temple layout and how it corresponds to the human body. The entire structure is a representation of man as an anthropocosmic entity or living corpus. 

As it seems to have been considered by most, if not all ancient cultures, everything, qualitatively, has a ness.  As in humanness. The relationship to a particular ness is what separates the animal kingdoms, it is what separates man from the other mammals.  Everything that exists is a symbolic form for a formless cosmic principle.  The ness is that which the symbol represents.

Our ness is our relationship with the cosmos, with all of nature that exists outside the universal conscious, as consciousness.  Currently, in western thought, the relationship of man and universe is as though in a physical, rational space.  One being inside the other.  On the contrary the Pharonic, as too the Hermetic, principle places mankind not inside.  Humans in physical form are symbols for humanness with an esoteric relationship.  Not esoteric in the sense of being hidden, but contrary to current rational perspectives, wherein we mentally separate the tree from the forest. 

Every natural object in the universe is a hieroglyph of divine science. - R.A. Schwaller

 Each section of man is a symbol for a cosmic function, and vice versa; giving meaning to age old ritualistic gestures, yogic practices, shamanic poses and the martial arts.  Many age old gestures have roots that cannot be traced through the fog of the ages.  A similarity among them might be the identification of function in gesture and form.

    Our relationship to the sub atomic universe within us also exists as an inexpressible esoteric link with that which surrounds us.  It is the negative to the external positive, or vice versa.  Consciousness, Life, or the elusive vital force  represents what constitutes human (a soul), and what constitutes our universe is the same matter.  

We are collectively the universe.  It sounds crazy, but all in all, no crazier than an exterior man god that rules all things.  We are collectively god, manness, because as most people already accept; man was made in the image of god.  And that means not only man, as in male, but the proverbial Adam and Eve, the mythic symbol of male and female ness. Mathematically, philosophically and spiritually we are all one living throbbing ness.  Everythingness.