over-soul

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But it is just silly how apparently Jupiter is the over-soul.

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  1. The divine spiritual unity of things; God as the spiritual unity of all being and the source of spiritual illumination: used by Emerson, without precise definition, as a philosophical conception. The only prophet of that which must be is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart. Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 244. The over-soul of Emerson is that aspect of Deity which is known to theology as the Holy Spirit. O. W. Holmes, Emerson, p. 411.

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  • But it is just silly how apparently Jupiter is the over-soul. —  Anime Nano!
  • Did you carry a clear idea of the Buddhistic over-soul through all the things that came after it in the day? " —  The Philistines
  • The vision was her over-soul, her higher self, which understood. —  There was a King in Egypt
  • This under-soul is in touch with the over-soul, which, in Emerson's noble phrase, "abolishes time and space." —  Real Ghost Stories
  • "Sally, Michael Daragh, as I've tried to make clear, is an over-soul. —  Jane Journeys On
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  1. Imitated from Sanskrit adhyātman, from adhi, over,+ ātman, breath, spirit, soul, self: see atmo-.
 

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