Brewer's: Vital Spark of Heavenly Flame

(Pope.) Heraclitus held the soul to be a spark of the stellar essence. (Macrobius: In Somnium Scipionis, i. 14.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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