
Cosmology means the study of the universe. But one could distinguish between physical Cosmology, the Cosmology of science and physics (e.g. the "Big Bang" Theory of the expanding universe), and metaphyscal or "esoteric' or "occult" Cosmology. The latter refers not only to the physical universe, but also to all the subtle or non-physical universes as well; the higher realms of existence - psychic, spiritual, and so on - that are beyond the physical
Emanation
The Great Chain of Being
Correspondences
The World Tree
The Four Kingdoms - Mineral-Vegetable-Animal-Human
The Involution and Evolution of Consciousness
Teleology
Big Bang
Cybernetics
Autopoeisis
Theory of Process (Arthur M. Young)
Unified Science (Edward Haskell)
Grand Syntheses of Science and Metaphysics
Formative Causation