empyrean

• “The empyrean is the central castle where the emperor (God) sits enthroned.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “From the ninth sphere to the empyrean, which is mere light.”

  Paradise. Canto XXX

• “Supreme power, the beetle that folds his wings, that rests in the empyrean, that is born as his own son.”

  Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings

• “From the ninth sphere to the empyrean, which is more light.v. 44.”

  Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete

• “643 One of the halls of the empyrean, which is here personified as a goddess.”

  Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings

• “The building itself, like the bell-ringing ceremonies inside, or indeed the activity on the hallowed floor itself, has been abstracted away from its original purpose and into the metaphysical empyrean of Higher Marketing: as much image as reality.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Teitelman: St. Patrick's Day as a Derivative Instrument

• “In the afternoon the wind strengthened after four days of calm and the goldens enjoyed it, rising into the empyrean until they seemed to dissolve in blue.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “This is perhaps where most readers depart company with Bloom, concluding that his kind of reading is finally an idiosyncratic and insular one, Bloom himself seated aloft in his own peculiar aesthetic empyrean.”

  Principles of Literary Criticism

• “For $3.7 million, you, too, can sit in this singular creation, gaze out at the magnificent sunsets, watch eagles wheel against the bright blue empyrean, pit yourself against the bellowing 74-mile-an-hour winds, the arctic snows, the unforgiving landscape.”

  The Washington Post: Undone by a house of dreams

• “It proves to be an unexpectedly profound experience for the man of forty, as Always, until now, [sex] had been too much, bigger than all systems, an empyrean as absolute as those first boyish orgasms, when his hand would make his soul pass through a bliss as dense as an ingot of gold.”

  Updike, John

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