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The world soul
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pneuma
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Pneuma is an ancient Greek word for " breath ", and in a religious context for " spirit " or " soul ". It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity , particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used ...
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n. 1 (context music English) a neume 2 the spirit or soul 3 (context Gnosticism English) one of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul
Usage examples of pneuma.
With the cruel detachment of a cat with a mouse, the pneuma began disabling him bit by bit, striking almost at will at the brachial, solar plexus, carotid sinus, and larynx.
He'd spent many lazy Yzordderrexian evenings on the roof of Peccable's house, watching the tail of the comet disappear behind the towers of the Autarch's palace, talking about the theory and practice of Imajical feits, writs, pneumas, uredos, and the rest.
Though it had no discernible features, it looked tender, and his hand had sufficient echo of the pneumas it had discharged to do harm.
It wasn't a skill with feits and sways, nor was it pneumas, nor resurrections, nor the driving out of demons.
I did find a passage in Arnold of Villanova, an author I had heard William mention with great esteem, who had it that lovesickness was born from an excess of humors and pneuma, when the human organism finds itself in an excess of dampness and heat, because the blood (which produces the generative seed), increasing through excess, produces excess of seed, a “complexio venerea,” and an intense desire for union in man and woman.