English
Etymology
cosmo- + -crat
Pronunciation
AHD|/k�zm�-kr�t'/
Noun
cosmocrat
- Lord, master or ruler of the world, the prince of this world.
- An ultimate �Higher Power�, a deity, God or Satan, an all powerful being.
- Chief executive of the universe.
- Grand architect of the universe.
- The creator of life.
- A prosperous business school graduate benefiting from globalisation|globalization and living the global lifestyle.
Derived terms
cosmocrator
cosmocratic
Translations
German: Herr der Welt
Greek: κο�μοκ�ά���
Hebrew: ���� ע���
Quotations
2003AD John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, A Future Perfect : The Challenge and Promise of Globalization, 'Chapter 12 - Cosmocrats: An Anxious Elite'
:page 69: "a cadre of people who live the global lifestyle more thoroughly than any other modern business people [...] well educated business school graduates."
:page 226: "On the other hand, the definition of a cosmocrat is much tighter than just "somebody who had prospered from globalization." Cosmocrats are defined by their attitudes and lifestyles rather than just their bank accounts. That separates them from the widest class of winners from globalization, who are simply local people who have plugged into global networks [...] So who are the cosmocrats? The backbone of the group is still provided by people such as Knapp: the loyal retainers of sprawling multinationals."
1990AD Alexander Scobie, Hitler's State Architecture, page 114:
:"External symbols suggest that the domed hall was where Hitler as cosmocrator (German|Gr Herr der Welt) would appear before his herrenvolk|Herrenvolk: On top of the dome's lantern was an eagle grasping in its claws not the usual swastika but the globe of the Earth (German|Gr Erdball)."
1870AD E. Peacock, Ralf Skirl. III. 113:
:"Endeavouring to solve that problem, which even the great cosmocrat we have alluded to seems to have found a difficult one."
1831AD Robert Southey, Devils Walk. 28,
:"You will not think great Cosmocrat! That I spend my time in fooling."
1831AD Robert Southey, Q. Rev. XLV. 427:
:"The idiosyncratic demorcratic, cosmocratic, comicocratic Jeremy that he [Bentham] is."
1822AD T. Taylor, Apuleius 258:
:"The cosmocrators [planets] are the leaders of the multitude in each."
1708AD H. Dodwell, Nat. Mortality Hum. Souls 130:
:"Yet they reckon her Sophia among their proper Aeons, far exceeding the Demiurgus and Cosmocratores."
200AD Iranaeus in the late second century, describes part of the complex mythology of Valentinus the Gnostic:
:�They teach that the spirits of wickedness derive their origin from grief. Herein the devil, whom they also call Cosmocrator and the demons, and the angels, and every wicked spiritual being that exists found the source of their existence. They represent the Demiurge as being the son of that mother of theirs [Achamoth] and Cosmocrator as creature of the Demiurge. Cosmocrator has knowledge of what is above him, because he is a spirit of wickedness; but the Demiurge is ignorant of such things, inasmuch as he is merely animal.�
200AD Gnostic Gospels: The Second Treatise of the Great Seth:
:"And then a voice - of the Cosmocrator - came to the angels: "I am God and there is no other beside me.""
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