influxus

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Leibniz recognizes three chief competing theories of causation: physical influx (influxus physicus), occasionalism, and pre-established harmony.

Leibniz on Causation Bobro, Marc 2009
Ita coelestia corpora pro mortalium beneficio religiones aedificant, et cum cessat influxus, cessat lex, [6653] &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007
The first consists in this, that the actus primus (i.e. the power to elicit a supernatural act) is, according to Molinism, due to a determining influx of grace previous to the salutary act (influxus prœvius. gratia prœveniens), but that

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
Leibniz dismisses the influxus physicus of the Scholastic Francisco Suarez as a “barbaric expression metaphorical and more obscure than what it defines” (Preface to an Edition of Nizolius GP iv,

Leibniz on Causation Bobro, Marc 2009
C 2) Poefeos influxus vel in remottr - nibus a Deo eft ad compenfanda turn fimas, & maxime barbaras Nationes, e* vent, turn coofifta iifdem mala, quo jufque cum Libertate, ac Virtutibus iia« data Dies ad expellendas 'tenebras, ter« turalibus confociatio • rorefque ooAumos •' • '- ■.

Poema Alexandri Pope De homine, Jacobi Thomson [the Hymn from The seasons], & Thomae Gray ... 1785