temple of immensity

Meaning: (archaic,idiomatic,usually preceded bythe)Theuniverseor the completeoverheadexpanseof theheavens, especially as conceived as an object ofreligiousreverence.1831,Thomas Carlyle,Sartor Resartus,Book 3, ch. 1:[T]his poor Cordwainer, as we said, was a Man; and theTemple of Immensity, wherein as Man he had been sent to minister, was full of holy mystery to him.1856,George Gilfillan,The History of a Man,page151:They reminded him of a man who should, after climbing a lofty mountain—whence, as from a pinnacle of the greattemple of immensity, earth, and the deep blues of air, and the everlasting brine of ocean were beheld—should turn away from the prospect.1860, Samuel Hallett Griffith,Literary reminiscences: selections from the papers of S.H. Griffith,page34:. . . heavenly messengers, travelling through wide fields to explore the mysteries of creation, carrying intelligence from outpost to outpost of God's universe, his ministers to do his pleasure, and announcing their advent, or bestowing their blessing, as they speed their onward course, in a halo of glory, filling thetemple of immensitywith their train.1914, William Boulting,Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom(2013 Routledge edition),→ISBN,p. 238 (Google preview):TheDe Immensais . . . a prolonged hymn of wonder and praise and intellectual exaltation, sung in thetemple of immensity.

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