Les Misérables vocabulary

I would see before me nothing but grassy meadows and beyond them not the seven heavens of the Christian cosmogony but two stages only, one of a deeper blue, the sea, and over it another more pale.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2] Within A Budding Grove

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Each has its cosmogony; each proclaims the doctrine of one supreme God, the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, of post-mortem rewards for "deeds done in the body,"—endless bliss for the righteous, and punishment for the wicked.

Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)