25-08-2026, 08:07 AM
"And they fly on their wings and circle all the planets."
This spiral system is ingeniously used to depict what Enoch saw when he was carried by angels into the first heaven (that is, beyond the dome of the Earth's atmosphere).
A Persian text, accompanied by a diagram of concentric circles, describes the arrangement of the then-known universe: Earth surrounded by the spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, followed by the sphere of the fixed stars and the outermost Empyrean.
The outermost Empyrean (referred to in the manuscript's Persian text as *falak al-aflák*—meaning "sphere of spheres") is, in medieval cosmology, the highest, outermost, and completely motionless layer of the universe, situated above the spheres of all the planets and the sphere of the fixed stars.
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A Persian text, accompanied by a diagram of concentric circles, describes the arrangement of the then-known universe: Earth surrounded by the spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, followed by the sphere of the fixed stars and the outermost Empyrean.
The outermost Empyrean (referred to in the manuscript's Persian text as *falak al-aflák*—meaning "sphere of spheres") is, in medieval cosmology, the highest, outermost, and completely motionless layer of the universe, situated above the spheres of all the planets and the sphere of the fixed stars.