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
The mystics are much inclined to adopt, in a modified form, the old notion of an anima mundi.
From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph
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
Avicenna de anima mundi, cum aliis, videlicet, Liber cujus initium est, “Inspector præcedentis libri Avicennæ.”
From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John
