over-soul

GREENBERG: His philosophy that all things are related under the great over-soul of the universe allows him to be inclusive in his music, to stack all of this unlike stuff together to create a whole a thousand times greater than the sum of its parts.

Charles Ives' Rambunctious 'Fourth Of July' 2008

This under-soul is in touch with the over-soul, which, in Emerson's noble phrase, "abolishes time and space."

Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead

When the conception of the over-soul is submitted to analysis it is found to consist of nothing else than vague images drawn from material sensation.

The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

By the term "the immortal companions" I do not mean to indicate any "immanent" power or transcendental "over-soul."

The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

The symbol of the cross, for instance, has far more truth in it than any vague metaphorical expression such as the "over-soul."

The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

So far from being a spiritual conception, this conception of an over-soul, existing just behind the material universe and pouring forth indiscriminately its "truth," "beauty," "nobility" and "love," is an entirely materialistic one.

The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

The average mind can swallow our contention that reason and will existed from the beginning because the average mind has been penetrated for centuries by vague traditions of an "over-soul" or an universal "reason" or "will."

The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

The "invisible companions" are not in any sense connected with the conception of an "over-soul."

The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

The elemental personality could in no sense be called an over-soul, because, so far from being an universal self made up of particular individual selves, it would be a completely detached soul, only related to other souls in the sense that all other souls come into contact with one another through the medium of its spiritual substance.

The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

There is nothing which appeals to the aesthetic sense about this hypothesis of an "over-soul" from whose universal being the ideas of beauty and truth and goodness may be supposed to proceed.

The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917