Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00764)

At 08:21 PM 4/18/96 -0400, you wrote:
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>>>This is an interesting question. As I understand it, there can be nothing
>>>outside the cosmos because 'All that Is' is the Cosmos and 'All that Is'
>>>would not be that if it could be outside itself. The Cosmos could be thought
>>>of as an evolving thing also therefore it is forever expanding and there are
>>>no limits to it. The Cosmos is full of Universes that may be said to have
>>>arrived via the big bang. As above so below, and as we are never ending so
>>>are all other things but all other things are expressions of the Cosmos. I
>>>read an interesting thing on Eternal being equated with unchanging and if
>>>that was the case nothing was eternal because everything was changing and
>>>evolving for ever. I guess it depends on how one understands it.
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>>>Bee Brown
>>>Member TSNZ,Wanganui Branch.
>>>Theos Int & L
>>>
>>>I think the entire difference here is not of opinion but of definition. I
>>personally define as "Cosmos" that which was "created" or "formed" by the
>>"Big Bang", as such there are many Cosmoi (pl) but if you regard the
>>"Cosmos" as everything..then of course nothing can, by definition, be
>>outside of everything. I think perhaps it would be best if there was a
>>better word for the container of creation.
>>
>>alexis dolgorukii
>>
>How would you define a universe? Would that be the container for solar
>systems and the Cosmos as container for universes? The Urantia Book has much
>to say on this subject and makes interesting theories but it seem such a
>vast subject to think about that labels are hard to pin down as to their
>meaning. Did the SD have a word for the container of creation? I have read
>it but I can't remember if it was mentioned. I suppose it was the circle
>with the dot in it or was it just the circle before the dot appeared.
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>Bee Brown
>Member TSNZ,Wanganui Branch.
>Theos Int & L
>
>How about..."A circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference
exists not at all.

alexis dolgorukii'
member TI, FTSA