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

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

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

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

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

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis