The term cosmic entity can refer to:
- in religion and spirituality:
- an aspect of God in Judaism in the theology of Shneur Zalman of Liadi (d. 1812)
- in mythology, any of the major components of the created cosmos (e.g. earth, heaven, sea, night, dawn, etc.)
- the deification of such concepts, i.e. any cosmological deity
- in occultism and Theosophy, a transcendent concept intended to replace or supplement the traditional concept of 'God':
- in the writings of Gottfried de Purucker (1935)
- in the writings of the Theosophist Alice Bailey (1920s-1940s)
- in the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions based on Theosophy, a cosmic entity is equivalent to a cosmic being
- in popular culture:
- Cosmic entities (Marvel Comics)
- Cosmic entities (DC Comics)
- a term used in the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft
Famous quotes containing the words cosmic and/or entity:
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“What is this world of ours? A complex entity subject to sudden changes which all indicate a tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings which follow one another, assert themselves and disappear; a fleeting symmetry; a momentary order.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)