Ekpyrôsis
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Ekpyrosis is a Stoic
belief in the periodic destruction of the cosmos by a great conflagration every Great Year
. The cosmos is then recreated (palingenesis
) only to be destroyed again at the end of the new cycle.
STOIC
STOIC was a variant of Forth.It started out at the MIT and Harvard Biomedical Engineering Centre in Boston, and was written in the mid 1970s by Jonathan Sachs...
belief in the periodic destruction of the cosmos by a great conflagration every Great Year
Great year
The Great Year is an archaic cosmological conception, found in different cultures, which acquired new interpretations with the development of astronomical knowledge In the Western tradition Plato has been the main source for the idea, so it was also frequently called 'Platonic year'...
. The cosmos is then recreated (palingenesis
Palingenesis
Palingenesis is a concept of rebirth or re-creation, used in various contexts in philosophy, theology, politics, and biology. Its meaning stems from Greek palin, meaning again, and genesis, meaning birth....
) only to be destroyed again at the end of the new cycle.