On the Mysteries (De Mysteriis)

has: I mean the soul pure from bodies, which is not even touched by the disturbance of that pleasure which is a restoration to nature. Since it is a supernatural, unbegotten life, it is not affected by any dissolving pain, since it is outside every body and the nature divided around the body, and the harmony descending into the body from the principal harmony of the soul; nor does it even require those passions that precede sensation. For it is not contained by the body, nor is it compelled to perceive bodies through external instruments. Now indeed, since it is an indivisible and uniform essence, remaining incorporeal in itself and sharing nothing with the body, it certainly admits no passions of division, or alteration, or any change.

He speaks of the soul separated from the body.

The soul does not suffer even while it is present in the body: neither the soul itself, nor the seminal reasons which it transmits to the body. For these species are simple and uniform, admitting no disturbance or departure from themselves. Passions, of whatever kind they may be, are in the living being; they are not in the soul, of whatever kind it may be, but in the body, which, under the soul, possesses a certain quality by which it both suffers and acts. There is no passion in the soul, whether destructive or disturbing; and the soul acquires this impassibility not only by choice, but pos-