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

Wordsworth was the fellow who hit upon the idea of the anima mundi.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

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.

From Armaiti must be carefully distinguished the geus urva, or "soul of the earth"—a being who nearly resembles the "anima mundi" of the Greek and Roman philosophers.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George

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

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis