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
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
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.
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
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
