Soul of the world

The "obscure soul of the world" that Stephen thinks of in Nestor is a metaphysical conceit dreamed up by Plato in the Timaeus and repeated by countless later thinkers, including many Theosophists in turn-of-the-century Dublin and London.

John Hunt 2012

The Englishman Robert Fludd's diagram of the correspondences between man and all parts of the created universe. Source: www.princeton.edu.