empyrean vs the upper regions

empyrean

noun
  • The region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy, and Dante's poem. 

adj
  • Of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined. 

the upper regions

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