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- not comparablerareExtraordinarily cosmic; that which truly transcends the very cosmos; supercosmic.
as far as we know, Porphyry did not consider the divine intellect to be a hypostasis clearly distinct from the Soul, but he often designated it ‘hypercosmic soul’.
2006, George E. Karamanolis, Plato and Aristotle in agreement?, page 3202 more examples
4th c., Sallustius, On the Gods and the World, translated by Gilbert Murray in Five Stages of Greek Religion (1925), pages 3-4 (Chapter VI. On Gods Cosmic and Hypercosmic)http://www.platonic-philosophy.org/files/Sallustius%20-%20On%20the%20Gods%20(Murray).pdf Of the Gods some are of the world, cosmic, and some above the world, hypercosmic. By the cosmic I mean those who make the cosmos. Of the hypercosmic Gods some create essence, some mind, and some soul. Thus they have three orders; all of which may be found in treatises on the subject.
It has parts of quasi-infinite density, bound together by cohesion of hypercosmic power; a mathematical or differential surface, which, inwards, is the seat of attraction to the other parts of the atom; and, outwards, it has the power of unconquerable repulsion to all that is near; so that no two atoms can beforced into contact.
1884, Joseph William Reynolds, The Mystery of the Universe, Our Common Faith, Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, page 102
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