Cosmic entity
Appearance
Cosmic entity can refer to:
Cosmology
[edit]- An entity that exists within the cosmos
Religion and spirituality
[edit]- An aspect of God in Judaism in the theology of Shneur Zalman of Liadi (d. 1812)
- In mythology, any of the major components of the created cosmos (e.g. earth, heaven, sea, night, dawn, etc.)
- The deification of such concepts, i.e. any cosmological deity
Occultism and Theosophy
[edit]- A transcendent concept intended to replace or supplement the traditional concept of 'God':
- In the writings of Gottfried de Purucker (1935)
- In the writings of the Theosophist Alice Bailey (1920s-1940s)
- In the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions based on Theosophy, a cosmic entity is equivalent to a cosmic being
Popular culture
[edit]- Machine Elves as Described by Terence McKenna
- A term used in the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft