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Dictionary of Astroeschatology

This part of the Astronary covers a wide range of terminology relating to Astronist eschatology, the discipline concerned with the destiny of humankind and the afterlife in the astronomical world.

1 the capacity of something to undergo cosmosis, usually only conferred to animate beings in astronaturalism, or those beings considered to possess a soul in transtellationism.

2 the capacity of something to experience transcosmisation.

Cosmisability

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the role of The Cosmos in the transcension of humanity, especially regarding its capacities for guiding this process.

Cosmoemalia

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the supernatural ability of being located on two different celestial bodies simultaneously.

Cosmolocation

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belief only in a metaphorical union with The Cosmos upon death rather than a physical or spiritual one (as is held in the major schools of mainstream Astronism).

Cosmonaturalism

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the process by which one’s body and, in some schools of thought, one’s soul come to reunite with The Cosmos at death, thus signifying the end of one’s cosmic, limited existence.

Cosmosis

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the study of the nature, dynamics and perimeters of cosmosis.

Cosmosis theory

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a period of infighting among humans as part of the Degradation caused by a lack of resources and the devolution of the species as a result of aversion to transcension.

Crepusculis

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a proposed method of technological resurrection involving the deep-freezing of a deceased or close-to-deceased person body to halt decomposition so that they may be revived in the future when cures and life extension medicines are successfully developed.

Cryogenicism

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the occurrence of one’s astrosis (also called corporeal cosmosis) just prior to their death.

Deathbed cosmosis

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the process by which the body decays following death, regarded among some Astronists as the natural or physical form and hence the only form of cosmosis as contrasted with the notion of the occurrence of a spiritual cosmic union.

Decomposition

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the general belief that the scope window is definite to close at some point in the future, a belief which comes to form the basis of the school of definitivism.

Definitism

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one of three schools of thought of contiguant philosophy affirming philosophers’ engagements with contiguance as constituting the necessary precursor to humanity’s achievement of transcension.

Definitivism

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