Aside from our unique interdisciplinary philosophical ideals, commitment to academic excellence, and integrity in scholarship, Kosmos Institute also addresses the economic inequities plaguing higher education. To us, the two most important elements in any educational situation are the teacher and the student. As far as we can tell, the educational institution exists only to uphold, support, and cultivate the dignified delivery of this relationship and its consequent contributions to the ever-growing cosmos of knowledge and free inquiry.

What I find fascinating in Hermetic and Gnostic Genesis myths are the formative encounters with limitation (and/or malevolent and inherently constricting daimons) that occur for the incarnating soul. In the myth of Sophia, for example, this limit is called Horos, meaning boundary. We can recognize the prefix from the well-known word “horoscope”—an astrological vision of a soul that has come under the dominion of a specifically limiting boundary.