self-mover

This power, according to Hogle, is the permanent, though self-concealing, self-mover causing all these transpositions, and it is the actual movement from state to state that turns one coloration into another without revealing any self-contained point of departure

Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007

However, Aristotle's picture of the will was not undisputed in the Middle Ages: as early as the twelfth century, Anselm had outlined a theory in which the will was a self-mover, and in which moral conflict was explained by the presence of two wills in the same person (Normore

Medieval Theories of Causation White, Graham 2009

But it’s worth pointing out that there already is an automobile (which is defined as a self-mover) that is 100 percent recyclable over a 5 - to 25-year period, with waste equal to food.

July 2008: More letters to the editor 2008

"Did'st thou see her, Neb-Anat -- the Queen -- the Queen in the living flesh sitting there in the self-mover, the devil-machine?

The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension George Chetwynd Griffith 1881