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Order.Chaos.Eternity.Infinity. TheIn-Betweener. They're abstractions.Conceptsmanifesting themselves asentities.

Abstracts are embodiments of concepts. Some of them were "born" when the universe was created, such asEternity,Infinity,Death,Master Order, andLord Chaos.^[13] Some are older, such asOblivion and theLiving Tribunal.^[14][15] Abstracts can be still born after the Big Bang, such as Eternity's children,^[16]Epoch,^[17] and theIn-Betweener.^[18]

The abstracts were decimated when theMultiverse was destroyed by theBeyonders and theincursions.^[19][20] A coalition of the principal abstracts, including the Living Tribunal, attempted to challenge the Beyonders but were completely overpowered and were wiped out.^[19]

As of theEighth Cosmos, the principal abstracts are divided into four pairs.^[24][23] Also, they have lesser intermediaries, except forThe-Powers-That-Be andThe-Natural-Order-of-Things.^[25]

• TheLiving Tribunal andOblivion (Intermediary: thePreordained)
• Eternity andInfinity (Intermediary:Continuum^[26])
• Master Order andLord Chaos (Intermediary: theIn-Betweener)
• The-Powers-That-Be andThe-Natural-Order-of-Things
  • Instead of intermediaries, The-Powers-That-Be and The-Natural-Order-of-Things use theAvatar and theCentum, respectively.^[25] They have the same rank as the intermediaries.^[27]

There are other groupings among the abstracts, such asLife andDeath,^[28]Mistress Love andSire Hate,^[29] Eternity's many children,^[30][31][32] theQueen of Nevers and theGriever at the End of All Things (who also use agents for their roles and conflict),^[33] etc.

• In theSeventh Cosmos, the quartet ofEternity,Infinity,Death, andOblivion was called "the four points of thecosmological compass"^[37] or "the four pillars of reality."^[38]
  • This is no longer applicable in theEighth Cosmos.^[23] Instead, there are eight "Ur divisors":^[24] theLiving Tribunal, Oblivion, Eternity, Infinity,Master Order,Lord Chaos,The-Powers-That-Be, andThe-Natural-Order-of-Things.^[27][39] The former six also received redesigns forG.O.D.S., which can be viewedhere.
• The term "abstract entity" is sometimes used interchangeably with "cosmic entity."Galactus,Celestials,Aspirants, and even theProemial Gods have all been called abstracts.^{[5][40][41][12]}
  • As clarified inQuasar #37, Galactus, Celestials, theStranger,Watchers, etc. are not actually abstract entities, but they can manifestM-Bodies in the same fashion as abstracts.
  • Regardless, these beings share similar stature to abstracts and arefrequently grouped together.

• M-Bodies often vary depending on the person looking.^[2]Eternity remarked that some sentient life forms have imagined him as sound waves or weather patterns.^[42]

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