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What is a pneuma?

What is a pneuma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A neume.
  2. The spirit or soul.
  3. (Gnosticism) One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul.
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A passage closely resembling the opening strains of Kol Nidre appears in two medieval antiphonaries where it is given as an example of a pneuma in the first Gregorian mode.
Apparently Galen refers to the pneuma and the various humours.
He correctly theorized that tides were caused by the moon, although he believed that the interaction was mediated by the pneuma.
With swaying arms they wail in pneuma over the recreant Bloom.
He is a man, but a spiritual man, one in whom spirit or pneuma was the essential principle, so that he was spirit as well as man.
This pneuma was equivalent to both soul and life, but it was something more.

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