Flute Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.997529 Composed by Victor Somma. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 6 pages. Victor Somma #5725017. Published by Victor Somma (A0.997529). In Stoic philosophy Pneuma is the concept of the breath of life, a mixture of the elements air (in motion) and fire (as warmth). Originating among Greek medical writers who locate human vitality in the breath, pneuma for the Stoics is the active, generative principle that organizes both the individual and the cosmos. In its highest form, the pneuma constitutes the human soul (psychê), which is a fragment of the pneuma that is the soul of God. As a force that structures matter, it exists even in inanimate objects. In the Bible, in the New and Old Testament this concept is personified, as if the action of the Creator who is capable of bringing something nonexistent to life were not just a force, a phenomenon, but had a consciousness of its own.
