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Neoplatonic immortality (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Immortality of the soul 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas 01.01.09 Immortality of the soul Netherworld = Prison 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.06 Netherworld imagery 01.06.03 Netherworld = Prison	Keywords immortality soul
Period 6th century CE Byzantine Empire	Channel Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
Damascius, Philosophical History 19:
It is a sacrilege not to preserve the immortality of the soul, raising it to the level of the holy and uniting it to the divine with bonds which cannot be broken or loosened, but by contrast to pull and drag downwards the divine which is within us, confining it in the earthly, sinful and Giant- or Titan-like prison.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Damascius, Philosophical History 19

Bibliography

Athanassiadi 1999, 98-99

Athanassiadi, Polymnia. The Philosophical History. Text with translation and notes. Athens: Agameia 1999.

Amar Annus

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