One conception refers to the idea that the entire universe (kosmos) is God (theos).
The term was coined by Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721–1794) in 1782 to refer to the Stoic worship of the cosmos or mundus as a Supreme Being.
According to Assmann, "Malesherbes could not have found a better term for what seems to be the common denominator of Egyptian religion, Alexandrinian (Neoplatonic, Stoic, Hermetic) philosophy, and Spinozism, including the medieval traditions such as alchemy and the cabala that have served as intermediaries.
"[1] Assmann also sees cosmotheistic ideas in the German Romanticism of figures like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller.
[1] The term is separately associated with William Luther Pierce, an American white nationalist political activist who founded the National Alliance.