NORSE MYTHOLOGY ( HISTORY OF UNIVERSE )

In Norse mythology a strong winter called the Fimbulwinter will seize the earth and bring disorder and
fighting between the people of Midgard just before Ragnarok. Ragnarok meaning the fate of the gods is
the battle during the end of the world waged between the gods and the forces of Chaos the fire giants,
the Jotuns and various monsters, led by Loki.
Not only will the gods, giants, and monsters perish in this apocalyptic conflagration, but almost
everything in the universe will be torn asunder. Only the gods Vali and Vidar will survive to rule over a
new world, with a ressurected Baldr.

William Miller made the first of several predictions that the world would end in only a few months.
Obviously, none of them took place, but followers of Miller went on to found separate churches, the
most successful of which is the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 
THE KABBLAH PERSPECTIVE

Kabbalah combines orthodox Judaic, Neoplatonic, Gnostic, and philosophical themes, to develop an
elaborate and highly symbolic cosmology in which God, who is ineffable and unknowable, manifests as
ten archetypal sephirot, each with its own Divine attributes, and arranged in a configuration of
interrelated paths called the Tree of Life.
The original Tree gives rise to further trees, until there are four or in Lurianic Kabbalah five worlds or
universes in all, with the lowest sephira of the lowest world constituting the material cosmos.

This cosmology proved highly popular with occultists, and formed the basis of Western hermetic
thought like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and subsequent organisations, where it is
associated with a form of astral travel called pathworking.