Editing Cosmotheism

{{Short description|Idea that the entire universe is God}}'''Cosmotheism''' is a term for several political or religious concepts.

One conception refers to the idea that the entire [[universe]] ([[Cosmos|''kosmos'']]) is [[God]] ([[Theology|theos]]).<ref name=":0">Assmann, Jan (2009). ''Moses the Egyptian'', p. 142. Harvard University Press.</ref> It is thus similar to [[pantheism]] and the idea of the [[anima mundi]] (world-soul). The term was coined by [[Lamoignon de Malesherbes]] (1721–1794) in 1782 to refer to the [[Stoicism|Stoic]] worship of the cosmos or mundus as a Supreme Being.<ref name=":0" /> [[Jan Assmann]] ascribed the doctrine to [[Ancient Egyptian deities|ancient Egyptian theology]] as well as various [[Ancient Greek philosophy|Greek philosophies]]. According to Assmann, "[[Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes|Malesherbes]] could not have found a better term for what seems to be the common denominator of Egyptian religion, Alexandrinian ([[Neoplatonism|Neoplatonic]], [[Stoicism|Stoic]], [[Hermeticism|Hermetic]]) philosophy, and [[Baruch Spinoza|Spinozism]], including the medieval traditions such as alchemy and the [[Kabbalah|cabala]] that have served as intermediaries."<ref name=":0" /> Assmann also sees cosmotheistic ideas in the [[German Romanticism]] of figures like [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] and [[Friedrich Schiller]].<ref name=":0" />

The term is separately associated with [[William Luther Pierce]], an American [[white nationalist]] [[Activism|political activist]] who founded the [[National Alliance (United States)|National Alliance]]. His cosmotheist ideology espoused that evolution was on an upward path to oneness with God; Pierce said that whites had a "divine spark" that set them on the best path for this.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Whitsel |first=Brad |date=1998 |title=The Turner Diaries and Cosmotheism: William Pierce's Theology |journal=[[Nova Religio]] |language=en |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=183–197 |doi=10.1525/nr.1998.1.2.183 |issn=1092-6690}}</ref>

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[[Category:Pantheism]]
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