pneuma, n.All

Pneuma (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in Simon Magus, a force that begets itself and grows by itself: its own mother, sister, bride, daughter, son and father, a single root of the whole.

Pneuma (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the spiritual side of nature, which aims at discrimination as the physical side aims at union; our contemporary reason, overvaluing the physical, lacks this spiritual orientation.