In its relation to the construction of the cosmos, matter consists of the three primordial elements, which, however, are not chemically connected with one another, but modify one another only physically.

The achievements which dispelled our fears of the cosmos took place three centuries ago.

In Egyptian belief, this cosmos was inhabited by three types of sentient beings.

In addition to seeing it as the most fundamental of the four elements and the one that is quantified and determines the quantity ( logos ) of the other three, he presents fire as the cosmos, which was not made by any of the gods or men, but " was and is and ever shall be ever-living fire.

In his " Myth of Er ", a section of the Republic, Plato describes the cosmos as the Spindle of Necessity, attended by the Sirens and turned by the three Fates.

Paracelsus believed in the Greek concept of the four elements, but he also introduced the idea that, on another level, the cosmos is fashioned from three spiritual substances: the tria prima of mercury, sulfur, and salt.

In the beginning, however, these three substances had only a potential existence, and came into actual being only by means of the three letters ; and as these are the principal parts of speech, so those three substances are the elements from which the cosmos has been formed.

In Jerusalem the earthly Temple was decorated with motifs of the cosmos and the Garden, and, like other ancient near eastern temples, its three sections made up a symbolic microcosm, from the outer court ( the visible world of land and sea ), through the Holy Place ( the visible heaven and the garden of God ) to the Holy of Holies ( the invisible heaven of God ).

After meeting the Star Maker, the traveller then explores earlier " drafts " of the universe, which he refers to as " toy cosmos ," including a universe composed entirely of music with no spatial dimensions, and a triune universe which closely resembles " Christian orthodoxy " ( the three universes respectively being hell, heaven, and reality with presence of a savior ).

Balinese Hinduism divides the cosmos into three layers.

The myth mentions " The Spindle of Necessity ", in that the cosmos is represented by the Spindle attended by sirens and the three daughters of the Goddess Necessity known collectively as The Fates, whose duty is to keep the rims of the spindle revolving.

Part three deals with the macroscopic realm of the cosmos.

Vollenhoven, distinguishes " three senses of ‘ law ’: structural law, inherent in the cosmos ; the imposed or proclaimed law of love, as the message of the Gospel in which Christ summarizes the teaching of Moses and the Prophets ; and the positive laws, enacted from out of positions of responsibility, in which a situation is given more definite form, in accordance to the norming law of love, in the context of actual geographical and historical exigencies.

* Redshift surveys are astronomical surveys devoted to mapping the cosmos in three dimensions

This is the belief that there are three cosmos, being heaven and hell, with Earth or humanity in between.

Employing a third concept of cosmos, what is manifest, Valentinian initiates could exegete scripture in light of these three aspects of correlated existence.

Covering over 4, 000 m² the exhibition contains exhibits related to one of the three topics: mankind, earth and the cosmos.

It rotated the primitive mixture, starting in one corner or point, and gradually extended until it gave distinctness and reality to the aggregates of like parts, working something like a centrifuge, and eventually creating the known cosmos.

His definition is based on the presence in the esoteric currents of four essential characteristics: a theory of correspondences between all parts of the invisible and the visible cosmos, the conviction that nature is a living entity owing to a divine presence or life-force, the need for mediating elements ( such as symbols, rituals, angels, visions ) in order to access spiritual knowledge, and, fourthly, an experience of personal and spiritual transmutation when arriving at this knowledge.

The prominent Wiccan priestess Starhawk related that a core part of goddess-centred pagan witchcraft was " the understanding that all being is interrelated, that we are all linked with the cosmos as parts of one living organism.

It is suggested that there are two parts to the Tiamat mythos, the first in which Tiamat is ' creatrix ', through a " Sacred marriage " between salt and fresh water, peacefully creating the cosmos through successive generations.

According to some analyses there are two parts to the Tiamat myth, the first in which Tiamat is creator goddess, through a " sacred marriage " between salt and fresh water, peacefully creating the cosmos through successive generations.

She writes, " The female earth was central to organic cosmology that was undermined by the Scientific Revolution and the rise of a market-oriented culture ... for sixteenth-century Europeans the root metaphor binding together the self, society and the cosmos was that of an organism ... organismic theory emphasized interdependence among the parts of the human body, subordination of individual to communal purposes in family, community, and state, and vital life permeate the cosmos to the lowliest stone.

As he said " You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite ".

The third section, on the music of the cosmos, he considered most important, and ordered it so as to come after the necessary background given in the earlier parts.

What is noteworthy about this large group of teen-agers is that, although their attitudes hardly differentiate them from their gentile counterparts, they actually lead their lives in a vast self-enclosed Jewish cosmos with relatively little contact with the non-Jewish world.

* Modern Neopagans, especially Eco-Pagans, sometimes like to describe themselves as animists, meaning that they respect the diverse community of living beings and spirits with whom humans share the world / cosmos.

The dyad is energeia emanated by the one that is then the work, process or activity called nous, Demiurge, mind, consciousness that organizes the indeterminate vitality into the experience called the material world, universe, cosmos.

* The natural world or cosmos is in a state of constant motion:

Abzu God of fresh water, co-creator of the cosmos, threatens to destroy the world with his waters, and the Gods gather in terror.

Indeed, in the great shakta scripture known as the Devi Mahaamya, all the goddesses are shown to be aspects of one presiding female force, one in truth and many in expression, giving the world and the cosmos the galvanic energy for motion.

In a letter to James F. Morton in 1923, Lovecraft specifically points to Einstein's theory on relativity as throwing the world into chaos and making the cosmos a jest.

In both texts Hildegard describes the natural world around her, including the cosmos, animals, plants, stones, and minerals.

The German philosopher Ernst Bloch attempted to reveal what he considered the hidden metaphysical meaning of Marx's thought, which Leszek Kołakowski summarizes as, " a picture of the world tending towards a universal synthesis of all forces and factors, not only social phenomena but the cosmos as a whole.

Taking a different view from other modern scholars, Ulansey argues that the Mithraic mysteries began in the Greco-Roman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a discovery that amounted to discovering that the entire cosmos was moving in a hitherto unknown way.

As Mani stated, " The true God has nothing to do with the material world or cosmos ", and, " It is the Prince of Darkness who spoke with Moses, the Jews and their priests.

" Weber argued that, as human society became increasingly rational, the need to explain why good people suffered and evil people prospered became more important because religion casts the world as a " meaningful cosmos ".

He believed that humans could not accept that anything in the world was meaningless and saw theodicy as an assertion that the cosmos has meaning and order, despite evidence to the contrary.

From the world soul proceeds individual human souls, and finally, matter, at the lowest level of being and thus the least perfected level of the cosmos.

The word comes from the Greek κοσμογονία or κοσμογενία ( from κόσμος-" cosmos ", " the world ") and the root of γί ( γ ) νομαι / γέγονα (" to be born, come about ").

One example is " The Adventures of Bulukiya ", where the protagonist Bulukiya's quest for the herb of immortality leads him to explore the seas, journey to Paradise and to Hell, and travel across the cosmos to different worlds much larger than his own world, anticipating elements of galactic science fiction ; along the way, he encounters societies of djinns, mermaids, talking serpents, talking trees, and other forms of life.

Pope Benedict XVI cites Teilhard de Chardin in a vision of the cosmos as a ' living host ' embracing an understanding of ecology that includes mankinds's relationship to fellow men, that pollution effects not just the natural world but interpersonal relations also.

A creator deity, ( often called the Creator ), is a deity responsible for the creation of the world ( cosmos or universe ).

Because the Aristotelian elements were a declining theory in Shakespeare ’ s time, it can also be read as nostalgia for a waning theory of the material world, the pre-seventeenth-century cosmos of elements and humors that rendered subject and world deeply interconnected and saturated with meaning.

A kachina can represent anything in the natural world or cosmos, from a revered ancestor to an element, a location, a quality, a natural phenomenon, or a concept.

Nut is also the barrier separating the forces of chaos from the ordered cosmos in the world.

Due to his fertile nature he was sometimes considered the " father of the gods ", and was considered to be a caring father who helped to maintain the balance of the cosmos, the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.

One example is " The Adventures of Bulukiya ", where the protagonist Bulukiya's quest for the herb of immortality leads him to explore the seas, journey to the Garden of Eden and to Jahannam, and travel across the cosmos to different worlds much larger than his own world, anticipating elements of galactic science fiction ; along the way, he encounters societies of jinns, mermaids, talking serpents, talking trees, and other forms of life.