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Proclus - Elements of Theology - Proposition 209
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Proclus - Elements of Theology, Proposition 209, quoted from Culianu, Psychanodia
The vehicle of every particular soul descends by the addition of vestures increasingly material; and ascends in company with the soul through divestment of all that is material and recovery of its proper form, after the analogy of the soul which makes use of it: for the soul descends by the acquisition of irrational principles of life; and ascends by putting off all those faculties tending to temporal process with which it was invested in its descent, and becoming clean and bare of all such faculties as serve the uses of the process.