He claimed that not only the optic nerve but all sensory nerves were hollow to enable the flow of 'psychic
pneuma' (see below); sensory nerves originated in the meninges and motor nerves in the brain.
Kissei will attempt to get an early approval of Calfactant for the indication of Acute Lung Injury (ALI) and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) utilizing the results of phase III clinical trial which will be conducted by
Pneuma in the US.
Galeno, siguiendo a los estoicos, hace que todas las formas de vida dependan de cierta manifestacion o forma del
pneuma cosmico.
Una vida que es, en cuanto comunicada, su mismo
Pneuma. El Espiritu nos hace participes de la naturaleza divina, es decir consortes de la naturaleza del Logos (23).
necessarily disjointed and increasingly chaotic account of the
pneuma as
Later, at the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge, I draped the West Pediment from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia with cloth animated by a theatre wind machine for a work called
Pneuma. This also animated the clothes and hair-dos of visitors but it essentially revealed the bodies of the statues beneath, which seemed to press themselves against the billowing fabric.
However, in ancient Hebrew, a language classified within the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, ruah ha-qodesh meant 'holy spirit,' which was later translated into Greek
pneuma hagion and thence Latin spiritus sanctus.
In ancient Greek,
pneuma is the word for air or breath, from pnein, to breathe; it gives us words like pneumatic (full of air) and pneumonia (a disease of our air/lung organs).
From this, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the Hebrew word for spirit may also be translated as "wind" or "breath." Similarly, the word "spiritual" in the Greek New Testament comes from the root word "
pneuma," from which come our English words pneumonia or pneumatic--which also can be translated as breath or wind.
The spirit (
Pneuma) is related to the spiritual realm, while the soul (Psyche) is concerned with our thoughts, feelings and decision making, (Rational, Emotional and Volitional) and finally the body (Soma) our physical earth suit that deals with the five senses.
Although none of these passages mentions ether by name, it seems likely they are referring to it; however, they establish no more than an analogy between ether and the "breath of life" (
pneuma) in living things.