Sentence examples for cosmic principles from inspiring English sources

These two cosmic principles circulate in the 12 channels and control the blood vessels and hence the pulse.

Nevertheless, the cosmic principles themselves cannot be straightforwardly regarded as absolutely good or evil.

The result of the interaction of the two cosmic principles through these powers is the cosmos in which humans live.

Plutarch's cosmic principles, the One and the Indefinite Dyad (De defectu oraculorum 428F-429A), allegedly found in the Timaeus, had long been considered Pythagorean in origin.

For Ehrenfels, the world as we know it is generated through the complementary activity of these two cosmic principles (compare Fabian 1986, 44 ff).

Both the Indefinite Dyad and God relate to the universe through intermediaries, namely a non-rational and a rational world soul (see above), which operate as antithetic powers of the two antagonistic cosmic principles.

But there's no separating the improbable power of conviction in his art from the worship of a cosmic principle.

Books 13 20 celebrate the cosmic principle (book 13) and present marriage prayers (book 14), funeral formulas (book 18), and other magical and ritual formulas.

In its normal Greek philosophical sense, logos was the cosmic principle by which creation was mediated – the personification of truth and wisdom.

Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism, called upon human beings to align themselves with the good, personified in the god Ahura Mazdā, because their ultimate salvation lay in the triumph of the cosmic principle of good over evil, personified in Ahriman.

The Ionian philosophers Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, and others provided Pythagoras with the problem of a single cosmic principle, the doctrine of opposites, and whatever reflections of Eastern mathematics there are in Pythagoreanism; and from the technicians of his birthplace, the Isle of Samos, he learned to understand the importance of number, measurements, and proportions.