oversoul

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The Crowd, by a kind of instinct—an oversoul or undersoul of which it knows not until afterward, takes up each tool gropingly—sometimes even against its will and against its conscience, uses it and drops it.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley

The second or subliminal personality is the superior spiritual self, the man's own oversoul, which automatically superintends all physical functions and procedures, and influences mental and moral attitudes.

From The Life Radiant by Whiting, Lilian

An artificial oversoul she is, that may presently break down and reveal a human being beneath it.

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Every combination of these atoms, whether a knife, a leaf, an animal, an earth, a sun, or a star, has this soul and oversoul.

From Ancient and Modern Physics by Willson, Thomas E.

The true self is a principle in you superior to both these natural characters, a kind of oversoul, as Emerson puts it.

From The Essentials of Spirituality by Adler, Felix