Cosmos

The cosmos (Greek: κόσμος kósmos "world [order]", also "jewellery" or "decency") is the external revelation of the spiritual world order that develops in the course of time, which as such not only has a natural law dimension, but always also a moral dimension at the same time. The cosmos thus becomes the epitome of order. The opposite concept is chaos, in which the spirit withdraws from the outer appearance. Largely synonymous with the term cosmos is the terms universe (from Latin: universus "total", from unus and versus "turned into one") , as the total of all created things; the nuance of meaning here, however, lies more on the spatial aspects and less on the inner order and beauty of the cosmos. In the most external sense, the cosmos is then also called space.

The deeper meaning of all cosmic evolution is that beings progress in many ways from taking to giving, i.e. from being a creature to being a creator.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Der menschliche und der kosmische Gedanke, GA 151 (1990), ISBN 3-7274-1510-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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