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- noun The
origin anddevelopment of thecosmos .
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It is the "creator-within" expressing itself uniquely through each person as a new form of "social cosmogenesis."
Barbara Marx Hubbard: Conscious Evolution and the Integration of Science and Spirituality Barbara Marx Hubbard 2010
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One of the great advances of science itself has been the relatively recent discovery of cosmogenesis, the universe story, as Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry call it: the mysterious, indeed awesome awareness that out of No Thing at All has evolved Everything that was, that is, and will be.
Barbara Marx Hubbard: Conscious Evolution and the Integration of Science and Spirituality Barbara Marx Hubbard 2010
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I cannot recall the exact source offhand, Sumer I think but compound imagery was the mode of explaining cosmogenesis and theogony in pre-literate and pari-literate times and we find the residue of similar explicatory "myths" in subsequent sets of icons such as Anahita, whose personification of a complete cornucopia is evident in her titulary associations with "water" and all living things.
Disagreement Behind the Scenes Jan 2008
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"Only now can we see with clarity that we live not so much in a cosmos (a place) as in a cosmogenesis (a process) -- scientific in its data, mythic in its form."
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Both studied mankind, but while Teilhard sought to situate mankind within the broad sweep of cosmogenesis - the evolution of the cosmos from its initiation - and from a religious perspective, Hartmann studied mankind at much closer quarters and from an atheistic perspective.
Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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Both studied mankind, but while Teilhard sought to situate mankind within the broad sweep of cosmogenesis - the evolution of the cosmos from its initiation - and from a religious perspective, Hartmann studied mankind at much closer quarters and from an atheistic perspective.
Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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Still βthe roote of all,β it has of late appeared in a number of guises, notably the attempt of Teilhard de Chardin to argue that the universe evolves from cosmogenesis through anthropogenesis to Christogen - esis.
HIERARCHY AND ORDER C. A. PATRIDES 1968
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'More systematic,' -- and yet by no means are the lines laid down and the plan marked out; there is no cartography of cosmogenesis; ... but seeds of meditation are sown.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Because in the Mysteries, cosmogenesis was taught through dramas which were symbolic representations of its events and processes; and out of these dramas grew the stories about the gods.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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The zero-energy universe is becoming more and more studied, and may well be a plausible explanation for cosmogenesis.
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