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The ascending soul (1)

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Ascent of the soul (1)
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.01 Doctrine of salvation
03.02.01.10 Ascent of the soul (1)
Ascent of the soul (2)
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.03 Assyrian substratum features in early Syriac Christianity
12.03.03.17 Mysticism
12.03.03.17.01 Ascent of the soul (2)

Keywords
ascent
Chaldean Oracles
soul

Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire

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Text
Chaldean Oracles 158:
(The pneuma) accompanies the ascending (soul) as far as it can follow; and it is able (to follow) until it has come to the farthest opposite place. For also listen to what the Oracles say about this: “And you will not leave behind the dregs of matter on a precipice, but there is also a portion for the image in the place surrounded with light.”

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Chaldean Oracles 158

Bibliography

Majercik 1989, 108-109

Majercik, Ruth. The Chaldean Oracles. Text, Translation, and Commentary. Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 5. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1989.

Amar Annus

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