"Cosmotheism" is a term invented in the late-19th or early-20th century, originally as a near-synonym of pantheism, and used by: Pantheism (Greek: pan = all and Theos = God) literally means God is All and All is God. It is the view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent God; or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. ...
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Cosmotheism is a form of classical pantheism that identifies God with the cosmos, that is, with the universe as a unified whole.
The foundation of Pierce'sCosmotheism was essentially similar to classical monistic pantheism -- he recognized no physical difference or separation between human and divine, between creator and created -- but with a few differences, most notably his idea of the "degree of consciousness of the whole, within".
In Nesiyahu's universalist re-imagining of a secular divinity, the universal celebration of Cosmotheism is the basis for rebuilding the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, and is also a secular ethnically Jewish and a Zionist contribution to all of humankind.
Pierce was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from Rice University in 1951.
Etymologically, cosmotheism differs from 'Pan-theism' in that "pan" is Classical Greek for all, while the Greek word cosmos means an orderly and harmonious universe.
His interpretation of cosmotheism developed from several disparate sources: interpretations of George Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman; strains of German Romanticism; Darwinian concepts of natural selection and of survival of the fittest, mixed with the related early 20th century eugenic ideals; and Ernst Haeckel's version of monism.
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