Empyrean
The Empyrean or Empyrion (from ancient Greek ἔμπυρος émpyros , German 'in the fire' ) was in the cosmology of the Middle Ages the highest part of the sky above the earth and is referred to as the area of fire or light and the dwelling of the blessed.
So it says in Godeschalcus and Visio Godeschalci with German translation : “It is said that heaven is 'Empyrean', i.e. H. “Made entirely of fire” means, and that only according to its radiance, not also according to the heat; and that is also, one wants, the 'third heaven' to which Paul according to his self-testimony ”[2. Cor. 12: 2] “has been caught up; because one sets the air space as the first, the firmament as the second and this as the third in the row. ”According to Aristotle , the empyrean was filled with ether .
In Christianity , empyrean was the abode of God and the blessed . Empyrean is mentioned as such in Dante's Divine Comedy . In English there is still the word Empyrean Heaven ( Seventh Heaven ).
literature
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy , Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-167-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1992
- ^ Duden, Foreign Dictionary, 1982
- ↑ Erwin Assmann (Ed.): Godeschalcus and Visio Godeschalci with German translation. (Sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein 74), Neumünster 1979, p. 111