Anima Mundi
The soul of the world, a pure ethereal spirit, which was proclaimed by some ancient philosophers to be diffused throughout all nature.
Anima Mundi
The Latin term meaning 'Soul of the World', a pure ethereal spirit diffused throughout all nature, regarded by ancient philosophers as being the divine essence which embraces and energizes all life in the universe.
Anima Mundi (Lat.) The "Soul of the World," the same as Alaya of the Northern Buddhists; the divine Essence which pervades, permeates, animates, and informs all things, from the smallest atom of matter to man and god.
Anima Mundi, or the Worldsoul, from Thurneisser zum Thurn, Quinta Essentia, (Leipzig: 1574
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Presented in Genesis, Christians learned from the story that the creation of woman varied significantly from that of man: ...
The Anima Mundi appears in a number of classical Latin authors, such as Cicero, Seneca, Virgil, Macrobius, and Apuleius (Haskins 1927).
De anima mundi et mundanorum iuxta priscorum magiam. Caelum et mundum esse animatum, insuper et caelestia quae videntur corpora, nobilissimis poëtis et sapientissimis philosophis est concessum, ...
Therefore, neither of these "principles" can be unalloyed essence of the Pythagorean Monas, or our Atma-Buddhi, because the Anima Mundi is but the effect, the subjective emanation or rather radiation of the former.
This concept of the "Anima Mundi", the soul of the world soul, brought Fludd a great deal of criticism and accusations of being a heretic, as we will see later.
Like a fetus, he is suspended, by all his three spirits, in the matrix of the macrocosmos; and while his terrestrial body is in constant sympathy with its parent earth, his astral soul lives in unison with the sidereal anima mundi.
This resonance of the cards with the human psyche can be viewed in many ways, from Carl Gustav Jung's theory of archetypes and the collective unconscious to the all-encompassing spiritual archive of the occultists' anima mundi ("world soul") or ...
Serapis is merely a name given to the dead Apis, or sacred bull of Egypt, is untenable in view of the transcendent wisdom possessed by the Egyptian priestcraft, who, in all probability, used the god to symbolize the soul of the world (anima mundi).
The Cosmic Slinky or Anima Mundi Revisited: Treatise on First Causes: Truth and the Liberation of Mind and Spirit (or not) by Philbin Macro
Cody Allison/Michael Rendler: The Master Key of Reality ...
 See also: Anima, Spirit, World, Angel, Soul
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