Ascension
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Ascension or ascending may refer to:
Religion
- Ascension (mystical), the belief in some religions that there are certain rare individuals that have ascended into Heaven directly without dying first
- Ascension of Jesus, the bodily ascension of Jesus into heaven
- Feast of the Ascension (Ascension day), an annual day of feast commemorating Jesus' ascension; a public holiday in several countries
- The ascending of Muhammad to heaven known as Isra and Mi'raj
- Ascension to heaven of Enoch (ancestor of Noah)
- The Ascension, another title for the Old English poem Christ II
- The Ascension, Lavender Hill, an Anglo-Catholic church situated on Lavender Hill, Battersea, South West London
- Enlightenment (spiritual), including:
- Ascended master, in Ascended Master Teachings a spiritually enlightened being who in past incarnations was an ordinary human, but who has undergone a series of spiritual transformations originally called initiations
- In some New Age teachings the spiritual transformation of the Earth
Geography
- Ascension Island, an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean
- Ascension Islands, a group of uninhabited islands in Canada
- Ascension Parish, Louisiana, a parish (county) in the U.S. state of Louisiana
- Ascension, Prince Edward Island, Canada
- L'Ascension, Quebec, Canada
Entertainment, arts
- The Ascension (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling tag team performing in WWE
Fiction
- Ascension (science fiction), the fictional process of leaving corporeal reality for a higher reality, often depicted as an evolutionary step in the history of intelligent races
- "Ascension" (The X-Files), a 1994 episode of The X-Files
- Ascension (comics), a comic book series (1997–2000) created by David Finch and published by Top Cow Productions
- "Ascension", a 1999 episode of Batman Beyond
- Ascension, in the Buffyverse, is to become a pure demon; see Richard Wilkins (first mentioned in season 3, 1999)
- Ascension (Stargate), in the Stargate universe, a process to become a noncorporeal entity on a higher plane of existence (first mentioned in season 3, 2000)
- "Ascension" (Stargate SG-1), a 2001 Stargate SG-1 episode
- "Ascension", a 2013 episode of NCIS: Los Angeles
- Ascension (miniseries), a television miniseries that aired in December 2014 on Syfy
Games
- Mage: The Ascension, a role-playing game
- Ultima IX: Ascension, the final part of the computer role-playing game series Ultima
- Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer, a deck-building card game
- NetHack, completing the dungeon-crawling roguelike
- A game map in Zombie Mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops, from the "First Strike" map pack.
- God of War: Ascension, a 2013 game for the PlayStation 3
- Ascension, a mod for Baldur's Gate II, a role-playing game.
Music
- L'ascension, an orchestra
- Ascension, an alias used by the British trance music act The Space Brothers
Albums
- Ascension, 2014 album by Michael Pinnella
- Ascension, 2014 album by Toya Delazy
- Ascension (Jesu album)
- Ascension (John Coltrane album), 1966
- Ascension (Misia album), 2007
- Ascension (Pep Love album), 2001
- Ascension, Hed PE album
- The Ascension (Glenn Branca album)
- The Ascension (Otep album)
- The Ascension (2face Idibia album)
- The Afterman: Ascension, 2012 Coheed and Cambria album
Songs
- "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)", by Maxwell from Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, 1996
- L'ascension, an orchestral suite by Olivier Messiaen
- "Ascension," the only song featured in the 1966 John Coltrane album Ascension
- "Ascension," a song by Enslaved from Isa, 2004
- "The Ascension", an introductory track for the band Manowar's "King of Kings" single
- "Ascension", by John Frusciante from Curtains, 2005
- "Ascension", by Mac Miller from GO:OD AM, 2015
Ships
- HMS Ascension (K502), a British frigate in service with the Royal Navy from 1944 to 1946
- MV Ascension, an American-flagged general cargo and container ship
Other
- Ascension (sculpture), a 1986 sculpture by Lucien Wercollier
- Ascension, moving upwards in climbing and mountaineering
- Right ascension, astronomical positions in the sky
- Ascension (company), a non-profit health system in the United States
- Ascension Health, a faith-based healthcare organization and subsidiary of Ascension
- Ascending (botany), a botanical term for the behavior of stems, roots, or other plant parts
See also
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