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“Cosmogonies can be located on a spectrum one end of which might be labeled creationist/ theistic and the other emanationist/ monistic: the former type envisages the universe as a creation of a divine power or deity while the latter conceives of the universe as a spatio-temporal manifestation of an ultimate, spiritual reality. The Abrahamic monotheisms are of the former type, while Platonism and some forms of Hinduism represent the latter. In the Mundaka Upanishad, for instance, we are told that: “As a spider sends forth and draws in its threads, as herbs grow on the earth, as hair grows on the head and the body of a living person, so from the Imperishable arises here the universe.”