During death, the soul "rises into the throat" (56:83) before leaving the body.
While she pines on her sick bed, her soul rises from her body, takes corporeal form and pursues the departing student.
Another despairing soul rises up against his psychic oppressor in "Broken Binoculars," the glum confession of a bodyguard who's about to kill the wealthy man he's paid to protect.
The vertical axis or tube, coinciding with the cosmic pillar, connects all parts of the building and is continued in the finial on the top; it corresponds to the mystical vertical vein in the body of the worshiper through which his soul rises to unite itself with the Highest.
Of course it added more to the significance this time as John was cremated and in my heart and soul rose from the ashes.
Still the tumultuous emotions this sublime object excited, were pleasurable; and, viewing it, my soul rose, with renewed dignity, above its cares – grasping at immortality – it seemed as impossible to stop the current of my thoughts, as of the always varying, still the same, torrent before me – I stretched out my hand to eternity, bounding over the dark speck of life to come.
This week's titles: "Mountains Beyond Mountains," "The Rainy Season," "All Souls' Rising," and "Krik?
On the anniversary of 9/11, she said, she felt "all those angels, all those souls," rising in the wind.
Francine Prose, in "Primitive People," and Madison Smartt Bell, somewhat, in "All Souls' Rising," and E. L. Doctorow, in "Ragtime," are others who succeed.
Chinese Buddhists, even in repressive times, hung on to objects with symbols of their faith, especially lotuses, which represent souls rising out of murkiness to enlightenment.
