Cosmogenesis

Cosmogenesis is a special Christian religious-philosophical term used to describe the origin and development of the universe . He describes the ontogeny of the individual in a cosmogonic context.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky used the term as the title of the first volume of her Secret Doctrine from 1888. The second volume, entitled Anthropogenesis , dealt with the origin of mankind. The French Jesuit priest and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin also used this expression. He used it to describe the goal-oriented process of becoming a spirit, which must prevail against the resistance of matter. He named biogenesis and noogenesis as further processes , which culminate in an omega point .

Blavatsky describes the first fundamental principle of the universe as "an omnipresent, eternal, limitless and unchangeable principle in which no speculation is possible" and uses the term "the absolute" for it. Within this absolute is the seed of manifestation, which is not itself manifested, which it describes as “First Logos ” or “ First Ground ”. It is equivalent to the Hindu Brahman and the En Sof of the Kabbalah and could be compared to the deity of early Christian mysticism .

At the dawn of manifestation there is a stage that Blavatsky calls the "Second Logos". This is still not manifested and now follows the principle of dualistic differentiation: Purusha - Prakriti , spirit - thing, father - mother.

On the third level (“Third Logos”) the manifestation of the cosmos finally begins. There are several names for this: Mahat, cosmic thoughts, Adam Qadmon of the Lurian Kabbalah, Brahman of the Hindus. From this Third Logos arises the manifested universe, beginning with the Seven Planets Logoi and then down the hierarchy of the divine intelligences to the other beings and entities in the physical world.

Blavatsky sees many correspondences between mythology and the writings of the world and this theory of cosmogenesis. She dedicated the first volume of her Secret Doctrine to comparing this view with those of ancient cultures.

literature

Evangelos Pitsos: Cosmogenesis . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-8316-0789-3 ; Google Books