Ascension

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Ascension may refer to:

• Ascension, moving upwards in climbing and mountaineering
• Right ascension, astronomical positions in the sky
• Ascension Health, a non-profit company that operates a network of hospitals in the United States

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, an annual 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

Arts and entertainment

• Ascension (sculpture), a 1986 sculpture by Lucien Wercollier
• The Ascension (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling tag team performing in WWE

Fiction

• "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

Performers

• Ascension, an alias used by the British trance music act The Space Brothers
• L'ascension, an orchestra

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

• "The Ascension", an introductory track for the band Manowar's "King of Kings" single
• "Ascension", by John Frusciante from Curtains, 2005
• "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

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