Empyrean, a word used by the old metaphysical natural philosophers to designate the highest region of light, where the purest and most rarified elements of fire (Gr. pyr) existed; and by medieval and modern poets to indicate heaven, the source of light and the home of the blessed.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 331
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