anima mundi
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Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
And man was to him the great mystery, because man contained surely something that belonged to, that was lent to, man, as it were, by another, the mind beyond, the anima mundi.
From The Dweller on the Threshold by Hichens, Robert Smythe
Did he mean that the Logos was the anima mundi?
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp
And nothing can be more beautiful than a childlike faith in the Great Being who is above all worlds, in the anima mundi.
From The Dweller on the Threshold by Hichens, Robert Smythe
The artist should take this hint, and organize geometry into a new ornamental mode; by so doing he will prove himself to be in relation to the anima mundi.
From Architecture and Democracy by Bragdon, Claude Fayette
