If Origen, in the context of contemporary Hellenistic philosophy, always refers to stars as to external cosmic entities similar to angels except for their material bodies, his later disciple Evagrius of Pontus, and after him the Nestorian Syrian mystics of the 7th and 8th centuries, sharply radicalise such cosmological reflections in the context of their mysticism. Rather than as objects of the external world, stars are perceived as shapeless forms in the firmament of the mind or soul. In ultima analysi, a star is a 'code' for the soul itself, which unites with the primordial light of the sun, that is, of God. Such consummately 'internalised' astronomy or astro-logy is a unique phenomenon in late ancient religiosity, so far left unaddressed in the scholarship.

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Širca, Alen Albin (2014). Um kot zvezda pri Evagriju Pontskem in v sirski mistiki. Keria (Ljubljana), volume 16, issue 1, str. 83-92, 167-168. URN:NBN:SI:DOC-MYD3H8VS from http://www.dlib.si

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Širca, Alen Albin. "Um kot zvezda pri Evagriju Pontskem in v sirski mistiki." Keria (Ljubljana) volume 16. issue 1 (2014) str. 83-92, 167-168.
<http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:DOC-MYD3H8VS>

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