For Plato, Man is the image of the cosmos. But Christianity holds that Man is the image of God. Jesus exemplifies this point, first in the Incarnation, then at the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and the Ascension. He was crucified at "the intersection of Time and the Timeless," on the Cross understood in the sense of the metaphor suggested in my last. Increasingly, I am beginning to suspect that part of the message of Christ to us all is that he shows us what we humans are in our own nature, so very imperfectly realized in human existence.
But that's probably highly speculative of me, and I'm sure many Christians would regard that statement as heretical. :^) Still, what is one to do when insights like this come to one, in deep contemplation and prayer?