1894 Brewer’s / V / Vital Spark of Heavenly Flame
(Pope.) Heracliʹtus held the soul to be a spark of the stellar essence. (Macrobius: In Somnium Scipionis, i. 14.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.