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
Did he mean that the Logos was the anima mundi?
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp
Its gods were the Epicurean deities who dwell aloof and careless of men; or the supreme Reason and Necessity of the Stoics, the anima mundi, of which human souls are fleeting and fragmentary images.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
Yes, the mind which is the anima mundi, the principle, of all things.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
I may mean a mere anima mundi; or an initial principle which once was in action and now is not; or collective humanity.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry
