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

Although absolutely in motion, they are relatively at rest; or we may conceive of them as resting, while the space in which they are contained, or the whole anima mundi, revolves.

From Timaeus by Jowett, Benjamin

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

Did he mean that the Logos was the anima mundi?

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

The unity expounded at first is simply an anima mundi, a living universe, but not intelligent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various