For other uses of the word, see cosmos (disambiguation)
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The cosmos is the universe, especially when thought of as an orderly or harmonious system.
Sometimes the term 'cosmos' is considered to be only the observed universe, while the term "universe" refers to all that exists whether it has been discovered or not. 'Cosmos' is the "known universe."
The philosopher Ken Wilber uses the term kosmos to refer to all of manifest existence, including various realms of consciousness. These realms include, for example, the physical, mythic, rational, holistic, subtle and causal realms. Wilber uses the term kosmos to distinguish this noetic universe (which, on his view, includes the physical universe)from the strictly physical universe that is the concern of the traditional ("narrow") sciences.
Word origins
In English, it may also be spelled "kosmos". The word is derived from Greek.
Kosmos' first eighty years attest to the staying power of an enterprise faithful to its own style.
After the war lunches were augmented by generous quantities of schnapps, and the punches and cognacs that rounded meals off were followed by the mixed drinks that typified the era.
In these cross-currents of the past and present, of respect for preservation and renewal, what has perhaps best endured is Yrjö Hepolampi's original straight-forward business concept: now in our third generation as a family enterprise, we continue to serve with impartiality and pride both the rich and the poor, the intelligentsia and the ordinary public.
This is a term used in the ancient wisdom or esoteric philosophy to signify the network, marvelously intricate and builded of the channels or canals or paths or roads followed by peregrinating or migrating entities as these latter pass from sphere to sphere or from realm to realm or from plane to plane.
These circulations of the kosmos are a veritable network between planet and planet, and planet and sun, and between sun and sun, and between sun and universe, and between universe and universe.
Furthermore, the circulations of the kosmos are not restricted to the material or astral spheres, but are of the very fabric and structure of the entire universalkosmos, inner as well as outer.
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