When the body is in the grave, dead and buried, or when there is a death of ego and its perspectives during one's lifetime, then a deeper spirit or soul can come to be. A deepening of historical being occurs by way of an under-the-worldly point of view. The descent into the underworld of souls (psychai, animae) is a descent into a soul-perspective or depth-perspective concerning history. One might say that the descent into hell is actually the ascent of soul. It brings a sense of soul into ascendancy in life, and it gives the human ego a perspective from a soulful point of view. The descent is itself a resurrection.
David Leroy Miller
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