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

Browning's life was never that of a recluse who finds in nature and communion with the anima mundi a counterpoise to the attractions of human society.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

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

Did he mean that the Logos was the anima mundi?

From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp

Yes, the mind which is the anima mundi, the principle, of all things.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis