Meaning of world soul | Babel Free

Definitions

A single, unifying spirit believed by some to animate every living being in the world and to underlie the value of every inanimate thing as well.

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Examples

“You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage; Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove Into the glasses of your eyes”

“Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the seething sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free . . .”

“NINA: The bodies of all living creatures have dropped to dust, and eternal matter has transformed them into stones and water and clouds; but their spirits have flowed together into one, and that great world-soul am I!”

“Like many ungainly or otherwise unattractive Scotchmen, he [Thomas Carlyle] was a seer. By which I do not mean to refer so much to his transcendental rhapsodies about the World-soul or the Nature-garment or the Mysteries and Eternities generally.”

“During the long nights on the mountain overshadowing Pasadena, he has done a lot of unorthodox thinking about the human mind, the human soul, the World Soul, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmos, God.”

“[H]er vision of Sant'Agnese resembles the beautiful Neoplatonist concept of the world soul as a great boat, in which every individual is a member of the crew who rows it through the cosmos for the space of existence, and then merges back into its fabric.”

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