primum mobile

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There was no doubt whatever that Judge McCamant was the primum mobile of the chain of accidents which made our present President.

From Time Magazine Archive

The innermost was the central and unmoving earth; outward from the earth were the spheres of the moon, of the five known planets, of the sun and the zodiac, and finally the primum mobile.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seraphs, the most powerful angels, kept the primum mobile moving; cherubs moved the zodiac, thrones the sphere of Saturn, and so on down to the moon, which fell under the care of common angels.

From Time Magazine Archive

We must make acquaintance with the primum mobile, and understand what sort of a personage it was, who gave the witches, in exchange for their souls, the power to torment their fellow-creatures.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles

But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis