anima mundi

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

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 G. G. Findlay

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

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

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 Robert Smythe Hichens

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 Benjamin Jowett