Motif
Body as prison of the soul
body_as_prison_of_the_soul
A motif of the Mystical Quest and Interior Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 occurrences
2 traditions
gnostic
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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten THE CARPOCRATIANS. 229 / THE CARPOCRATIANS. / FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN. / THE CARPOCRATIANS. 231; lines 13971-14099 confidence: high
The adversary is identified as the accuser or karmic record, the judge as chief of the world-building powers, the officer as builder of the new body, and 'the prison is the body'; the passage says this is the same exegesis as in Pistis Sophia and aligns with reincarnation and karma.
The passage explicitly gives the exegesis that the prison is the body within a reincarnation framework.
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sufi
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 745-790 confidence: high
The passage says Sufis find bodily resurrection difficult because a soul united with God would have to return to the body, described as the prison escaped at death.
The passage calls the body a prison from which the soul escapes at death and resists being returned to it.
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