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Thehyperuranion[1] ortopos hyperuranios[2] (Ancient Greek:ὑπερουράνιον τόπον,[3][4]accusative of ὑπερουράνιος τόπος, "place beyond heaven"), which is also calledPlatonic realm, is a place inheaven where all ideas of real things are collected together.[5] As a perfect realm ofForms,[3] 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.[6] It is described as higher than the gods since theirdivinity depended on the knowledge of the hyperuranion beings.[4]
"But the region above the heaven (ὑπερουράνιον τόπον) was never worthily sung by any earthly poet, nor will it ever be ... For the colorless, formless, and intangible truly existing essence, with which all true knowledge is concerned, holds this region and is visible only to the mind, the pilot of the soul." (Plato,Phaedrus)[3][7]
The hyperuranion doctrine is also a latermedieval concept that claims God within theEmpyrean exists outside of heaven and controls it as theprime mover from there for heaven even to be a part of themoved.[1] The French alchemistJean d'Espagnet rejected the idea of hyperuranion in his workEnchiridion, where he maintained that nature is not divided into conceptual categories but exists in unity.[8]
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