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The universe conceived as an orderly, harmonious system. All that exists in time and space including spectra of light, forces of bodies, cycles of the elements — life, intelligence, memory, record and dimensions beyond physical perception — mathematically calculated as the evidence of things not seen as yet, but which do appear in the Spirit cosmos that coexists with and interpenetrates the Matter cosmos as a grid of light. Source: Glossary of Ascended Master Terms & Definitions

As outlined in Plato's Timæus, the Cosmos is the world of becoming, the material world, as opposed to the eternal world of ideas, or forms, upon which it is modelled. He notes that everything in this world "comes to be and passes away, but never really is". Able to be grasped by sense-perception and opinion, it is a created world, artfully crafted onto pre-existing, formless material (the elements, comprising atomic platonic solids in space) by the Demiurge, or creator. The Cosmos is a living being, subject to time and space, and of course, astrological considerations...

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