In this image the English medical doctor and philosopher Robert Fludd (1574-1637) shows how we as human beings are connected to the world around us, but also to the higher world, the divine.
Fludd distinguishes three areas of brain activity: the sensible world (‘mundus sensibilis’), the imaginable world (‘mundus imaginabilis’), and the world of the highest intelligence (‘mundus intellectualis’). We receive information from the external world through our five senses. This information is assimilated into our imagination, and from there it is worked on by reason and by intellect and by ‘Mens’, which is Latin for mind, and signifies the highest intelligence.

This image comes from Robert Fludd’s book Utriusque cosmi historia (1617), or ‘The history of both worlds’, the greater world, the universe, and the smaller world, the human being.