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The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.
Eric Voegelin
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Eric Voegelin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1901
Born: January 3
Died: 1985
Died: January 19
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Cologne
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