By John Donne
Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.
And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took took him out of their sight.
In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment.
The culminating event in the game Nethack, in which your character ascends to demigodhood by sacrificing the Amulet of Yendor on the high altar of your god in the astral plane, after escaping Moloch's Sanctum, Gehennom, and Dungeons of Doom with the Wizard of Yendor popping up trying to steal back the amulet, then passing through the four elemental planes.
Attempting to interfere with your ascension are the three other riders of the apocalpyse (you are soon to become War*), who reincarnate as necessary, various angels, and assorted other nasty monsters.
The equipment you rely upon to help you do this is called an Ascension Kit.
*this correction thanks to JerboaKolinowski
Also, the mechanism in The Kingdom of Loathing by which one starts from the beginning, with new shinies.
As*cen"sion, n. [F. ascension, L. ascensio, fr. ascendere. See Ascend.]
1.
The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
2.
Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
3.
An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
Vaporous ascensions from the stomach. Sir T. Browne.
Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. -- Right ascension Astron., that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. -- Oblique ascension Astron., an arc of the equator, intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator which rises together with a star, in an oblique sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the horizon with a star. It is little used in modern astronomy.
© Webster 1913.
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