In the first chapter of the Hebrew Bible, it says that “God created man in His image.” In Hebrew, this is written as tzelem Elohim, and some rabbinical interpretations hold that humans can function as icons that draw God’s presence into the world—similar to the murtis in Hinduism.
Trained in Rosicrucian philosophies, Rudolf Steiner taught that humans have several bodies: the physical body, the etheric body — which animates the physical body, the “I” or the ego, and the astral body.
Ernst Chladni documented the frequency patterns created in sand as it conforms to the sound frequencies emitted from vibrating metallic plates, he developed a formula that connected the specific frequencies with their manifest patterns, and published the results in his 1787 treatise.