Meaning of typocosmy | Babel Free

Definitions

The representation of the world.

archaic, uncountable

Examples

“Such was the travail of Raymundus Lullius, in making that art which bears his name⟳; not unlike to some books of typocosmy, which have⟳ been made since; being nothing but a mass of words of all arts, to give⟳ men countenance, that those which use⟳ the terms might be thought to understand⟳ the art; which collections are much like⟳ a fripper’s or broker’s shop⟳, that hath ends of everything, but nothing of worth.”

“Here Spirit is conceived of as Substance, and Matter⟳ as the typocosmy apparent to the senses, and which we call⟳ the world.”

“Typocosmy was at once a mystical, esoteric form⟳ of astrology and a private philosophical or cosmological system based upon Krafft’s exalted visions of the macrocosm and the microcosm.”

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