The hyperuranionKatherine Murphy, Richard Todd,
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', BRILL, 2008, p. 260. or topos hyperuranios (,Plato, '' Phaedrus'', 247b–c.

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of ὑπερουράνιος τόπος, "place beyond heaven"), which is also called Platonic realm, is a place in

heaven Heaven, or the Heavens, is a common Religious cosmology, religious cosmological or supernatural place where beings such as deity, deities, angels, souls, saints, or Veneration of the dead, venerated ancestors are said to originate, be throne, ...

where all ideas of real things are collected together. As a perfect realm of Forms, the hyperuranion is within Plato's view that the idea of a phenomenon is beyond the realm of real phenomena and that everything we experience in our lives is merely a copy of a perfect model. It is described as higher than the gods since their

divinity Divinity (from Latin ) refers to the quality, presence, or nature of that which is divine—a term that, before the rise of monotheism, evoked a broad and dynamic field of sacred power. In the ancient world, divinity was not limited to a single ...

depended on the knowledge of the hyperuranion beings. The hyperuranion doctrine is also a later

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concept that claims God within the

Empyrean In ancient European cosmologies inspired by Aristotle, the Empyrean heaven, Empyreal or simply the Empyrean, was the place in the highest heaven which was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire (or aether in Aristotle's natural philos ...

exists outside of heaven and controls it as the

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from there for heaven even to be a part of the moved. The French alchemist

Jean d'Espagnet Jean d'Espagnet (1564 – c. 1637) was a French The Renaissance, Renaissance polymath. He was a lawyer and politician, a mathematician and Alchemy, alchemist, an antiquarian, poet and friend of French literati. D'Espagnet was a counsellor in the Pa ...

rejected the idea of hyperuranion in his work ''Enchiridion'', where he maintained that nature is not divided into conceptual categories but exists in unity.

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