Concept cluster: Philosophy > Spirituality and the Soul
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Initialism of two-spirited. [Of, pertaining to or being a two-spirit.]
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voluntary, desired or curative possession by a spirit
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Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
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(spirituality) A number or sequence of numbers that a person frequently notices in the world around them, believed to be a message from benevolent angels.
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(chiefly philosophy) The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
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Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
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(medicine, now historical) The theorized ‘spirits’ or physiological principles which allowed for sensation and voluntary movement.
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(philosophy, ontology) A theory of personal identity which holds that persons are individual organisms of the species Homo sapiens, and the conditions of our persistence and identity are simply those of animals.
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Relating to mind or spirit; spiritual.
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(anthropology) The belief that everything is pervaded with a life-force giving each inanimate object a consciousness or personality, but not a soul as in animism.
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(dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.
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The belief that human beings have a spiritual nature beyond the physical body characterized by in-dwelling Divinity.
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Obsolete spelling of ascetic [Of or relating to ascetics]
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One of numerous beings formerly believed to live among the heavenly bodies, variously seen as fallen angels or the spirits of dead men.
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(spiritualism) Mystical knowledge of, or the ability to know, a person's heart (thoughts and feelings).
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Of or pertaining to Edgar Cayce (1877–1945), American spiritualist and claimed psychic.
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(Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
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(New Age) As a spiritual practitioner who feels that he or she has attained a type of communication with God: to work with God to bring desirable things into the practitioner's life.
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(spiritualism, parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
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Obsolete form of dervish. [A member of the Dervish fraternity of Sufism, known for spinning.]
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Obsolete form of dervish. [A member of the Dervish fraternity of Sufism, known for spinning.]
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Obsolete form of demonical.
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(parapsychology) A visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead.
adj
Alternative form of eldritch [Unearthly, supernatural, eerie, preternatural.]
v
(transitive) To give a soul or place in the soul.
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Having or moving toward a superior mind or soul
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(literally, by extension) A paranormal or supernatural entity which fights for itself or on others behalf.
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(Quakerism) focused, centered, achieving a state of shared mysticism.
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Spirit (of a group, age, era, etc).
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(archaic) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
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Alternative spelling of jism [Spirit or energy.]
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(occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
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Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
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(obsolete) To set a soul in; reflexively, to fix one's strongest affections on.
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Of, relating to, or between different spiritual beliefs or religions.
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Spirit or energy.
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A type of spiritualism (defined broadly as the belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium) whose followers believe in Allan Kardec's Spiritist Codification, a series of five books containing moral and other teachings.
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In Karen animism, one of the thirty-seven spirits that are said to embody every individual.
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(occultism) A path through life that values the advancement and preservation of the self and the pursuit of terrestrial goals, rather than the worship of intangible deities.
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According to certain New Age beliefs, a stream of life force associated with an individual being.
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(set phrase, religion) A soul that is destined to go to hell; a person possessing such a soul.
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(philosophy, chiefly theosophy) The mind; that which distinguishes man from the animals.
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(countable, spiritualism) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
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A spiritualist; a medium (person claiming to contact the dead).
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Of or pertaining to mediums (people claiming to contact the dead); relating to or having the ability to communicate with spirits.
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(parapsychology) The state of being a medium (psychic conduit); purported ability to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.
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Synonym of spiritual
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(biblical) The tangible aspects of life, as possessed by human beings and the higher animals; sometimes translated as soul.
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A reincarnated person.
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Synonym of angel aura
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The spiritual effect in the performance of a religious rite that is ascribed chiefly or exclusively to the disposition of the recipient.
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Relating to, or encompassing, all kinds of spirituality.
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The supposed use of clairvoyance or similar spiritualistic practices to investigate paths that an individual can take in his or her life.
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(spiritualism) A layer of an abstract, ethereal material that is said to serve as the bond between one's spirit and physical body.
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(Gnosticism) One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul.
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spiritualism centred on the belief in the pneuma
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The study of spiritual beings and phenomena, especially the interactions between humans and God.
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Relating to multiple souls, spirits or personalities
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spirit animal
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(religion, philosophy) Guidance of the soul.
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(Gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
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(spiritualism) A photographic image having a supposed supernatural or spiritual origin
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(spiritualism) Relating to seances or occult communication.
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(spiritualism) The act of a spirit possessing one's physical body in order to write something.
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(religion) A spirit, deity, person, etc., who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife.
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Alternative form of psychopomp [(religion) A spirit, deity, person, etc., who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife.]
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(religion) The weighing of souls, as a form of judgment of people's worth.
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(parapsychology) A group of spiritualists that hold sittings in order to assist confused spirits of the dead accept the fact that they are dead.
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Obsolete form of soul. [(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.]
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A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a spiritual and, or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds.
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The spirit or magical force associated with an item in the belief system of New Guinea.
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(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.
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(spiritual warfare, etc.) A part of a person's energy field that is thrown away, lost or stolen and that now exists separately from and independently of that person.
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(spiritual warfare) A metaphysical connection between an individual and someone or something else, formed by being extremely close to them.
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Something that shapes and modifies one's soul or core being.
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Obsolete spelling of soul [(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.]
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Of or relating to a person's soul, sometimes (theology) as opposed to the divine spirit.
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(Christianity) Relating to or involving the human soul.
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(informal) Of, relating to, or characteristic of the soul.
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Obsolete spelling of soul [(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.]
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(obsolete) A spagyrist.
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Eye dialect spelling of spirit. [The soul of a person or other creature.]
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(theology) The procession of the Holy Ghost.
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The soul of a person or other creature.
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(informal, humorous) A person with whom one has a deep connection due to shared beliefs etc.
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(transitive) To carry off through the agency of a spirit or through some magical means.
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Synonym of Ouija board (“lettered board for communication with spirits”)
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(parapsychology) The practice of living humans purportedly speaking or otherwise communicating with spirits of deceased individuals, as through seances, mediums, etc.
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A spiritualist or medium.
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(Southeast Asia) A small house- or temple-like structure mounted on a pillar at which offerings are made to a local deity or protective spirit.
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Individuals (usually male) who are spiritual in form.
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Synonym of joss paper
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A spirit way.
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(parapsychology) The purported art of taking photographs of the spirits of dead people, other spiritual entities, ectoplasm, auras, and the like; a common practice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially using black-and-white photography and the technique of double exposure.
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A spirit way.
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Synonym of spiritual world
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(Christianity) controlled or directed by the Holy Spirit
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(obsolete) By means of the breath.
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The sphere, realm, or world of the spirit; spirituality; spirits collectively.
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(transitive, intransitive, dialect) To endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven.
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One who spirits away another, particularly one who steals children to be sold into forced labour in the New World.
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Relating to a person's spirit, or to the spiritual world.
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Resembling a spirit in character, quality, or appearance; spiritlike; spiritly.
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A philosophical doctrine, established in France in the mid nineteenth century, postulating that humans are essentially immortal spirits that temporarily inhabit physical bodies, and may have influence on the physical world.
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Spiritualist.
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Of, relating to, or resembling a spirit; spiritual; spiritlike.
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Alternative form of spirit man [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See spirit, man.]
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of the nature of spirit
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(hence, with his or your) Title applied to, or used when addressing, a spirit.
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Characteristic of or possessing the qualities of a spirit; spiritlike.
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Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
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A form of alternative medicine in which spirits, normally of the dead, assist in curing the afflicted.
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(religion, mythology) A metaphysical plane of existence parallel to the material world and occupied by spirits and other unearthly forces.
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A belief that spirits of the dead have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living, providing useful knowledge about moral and ethical issues, as well as about the nature of God.
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One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
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Obsolete form of spiritual. [Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.]
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(obsolete) The state or fact of being spiritual; holiness, spirituality.
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(dated) An artistic bohemian woman.
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An aspirate.
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(sometimes capitalized) The spirit, outlook, point of view, or social and cultural values characteristic of an era of human history.
adv
In terms of the spirit, or spirits.
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Alternative form of spirit world [Synonym of spiritual world]
adj
Obsolete form of spiritual. [Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.]
adj
Obsolete form of spiritual. [Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.]
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(obsolete) Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
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(mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade.
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Archaic or pseudo-archaic spelling of spirit.
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Obsolete form of spiritual. [Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.]
adj
Obsolete form of spiritual. [Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.]
adj
Obsolete form of spiritual. [Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.]
adj
Obsolete form of spiritual. [Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.]
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The obsolete theory that all matter has a vital force and that every vital action is a function or operation of the soul.
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very spiritual
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Of or relating to the materialization of spiritualistic phenomena.
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The belief that the human soul eventually dies.
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theism (morbid condition resulting from excessive consumption of tea)
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Relating to God and spirituality.
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(Scientology) A soul, spirit or being.
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(spiritualism) A manifestation of the thoughts, ideas or emotions of someone. It is believed to be able to be sensed by people and take physical form within the spirit world.
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In voodoo, one of the dualistic aspects of the soul, responsible for personality, character, and willpower.
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Communication with the dead, or the spiritual world.
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A psychic who is able to cross boundaries between the natural and supernatural worlds.
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A type of thoughtform capable of independent action, with a persistent personality and identity; a kind of modern imaginary friend.
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(spirituality) A person who was formed from the same original soul as oneself (as opposed to a soulmate, an unrelated soul to whom one is drawn).
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(theology) Involving two spirits; especially, pertaining to the doctrine of dualism espoused in the so-called Treatise on the Two Spirits in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.
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Relating to voodooism.
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The spirit of a witch.
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Alternative form of world soul [(religion, philosophy) 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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Alternative form of world soul [(religion, philosophy) 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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Alternative form of world soul [(religion, philosophy) 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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The individual human body and mind, in the dualist occultism of Austin Osman Spare.

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