| 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. |
| Another necessity for the support of life is the pneuma which circulates in the vessels. |
| The pneuma, or spirit, was in their opinion the cause of health and of disease. |
| In Stoic philosophy, the pneuma penetrates all things, holding things together. |
| As a concept, it has affinities with Plato's anima mundi, and the Stoics ' pneuma. |
| This pneuma was equivalent to both soul and life, but it was something more. |
