Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

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Defterocosmos

 

39 The Holy Planet “Purgatory”

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“And, namely, they named the Most Most Holy Prime-Source Sun Absolute itself—‘Protocosmos.’

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“Each newly arisen ‘Second-order-Sun’ with all its consequent definite results they called ‘Defterocosmos.’

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“‘Third-order-Suns,’ i.e., those we now call ‘planets,’ they called ‘Tritocosmos.’

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“The smallest ‘relatively independent formation’ on the planets, which arose thanks to the new inherency of the fifth Stopinder of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh and which is the very smallest similarity to the Whole, was called ‘Microcosmos,’ and, finally, those formations of the ‘Microcosmos’ and which also became concentrated on the planets, this time thanks to the second-order cosmic law called ‘mutual attraction of the similar,’ were named ‘Tetartocosmoses.’

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“And all those cosmoses, which together compose our present World, began to be called the ‘Megalocosmos.’