First Physical Dissertation on the Bond Connecting Soul and Body

and is also embraced by HENRY MORE in An Antidote against Atheism, Book II, Chapter II, 13, Philosophical Writings, Vol. II, page 60, where he specifically states that motion which occurs against mechanical laws is a most certain pledge and indication that things, even where they occur congruently—though not with that visible stubbornness and violence—are nevertheless effects of an immaterial principle (you may call it the Spirit of Nature Spiritum Naturæ, or whatever else you wish), which is a power acting as a deputy of God into this huge Automaton, the Universe.

§. V.

Although, therefore, many agree regarding the existence of the World Soul, they do not all conspire as one regarding its nature and character. Generally, indeed, they agree that the spirit of the world is endowed with a certain universal capacity toward all things—however multifarious they may be—since it animates and directs all things universally. Specifically, however, it pleases PLATO in the work mentioned above to write: (God) placed the soul in the middle of it (namely, of the body made from the whole and perfect parts of the whole and perfect being), and extended it through the whole, and covered the body itself with it even from the outside, and established this one and only solitary and circular world to be revolved in a circle, which, on account of its virtue, can easily hold itself together, needing nothing else, being sufficiently known and friendly to itself.