Within the visible world, man is as it were a second world; and the same is true of thought within the intelligible world. for man is the herald of heaven and earth, and of all that is in them; while thought interprets the intellect and sense-perceptions, and all that pertains to them. Without man and thought both the sensible and the intelligible worlds would be inarticulate.
~Ilias the Presbyter
Prayerful Life 