Eleazar of Worms, Hokhmat ha-Nefesh, ch. 48, p. 80
Every angel who is an archon of the zodiacal sign (sar mazzal) of a person when it is sent below has the image of the person who is under it… And this is the meaning of “And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him” (Gen. 1-27). Why is [it written] twice, “in His image” and “in the image”? One image refers to the image of man and the other to the image of the angel of the zodiacal sign which is in the image of the man.
Translated by Elliot Wolfson in Through a Speculum that Shines- Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, Princeton- Princeton University Press, 1994.
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