Furthermore, Anaximander said, I was already set upon a path to the singular conjunction which would bind all these together, the birth of the burning ocean which flows through all things and makes of all places one place, and I should open myself to the experience so that I might live. Beware jealous Hephaestus and the bearer of the burning torch, Anaximander said, and remember what I have told you: five concentric spheres which must align.