Empyreal Raum

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Imperial Rome / empirical space

Raum: German, 'space'

Empyrean (from the Med. Lat. empyreus, an adaptation of the Ancient Greek, in or on the fire, iriip), the place in the highest heaven, which in ancient cosmologies was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire. It was thus used as a name for the firmament, and in Christian literature for the dwelling-place of God and the blessed, and as the source of light. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyrean