First Physical Dissertation on the Bond Connecting Soul and Body

Whatever may be the case regarding the entire dispute about this World Soul, I declare roundly that it is not my intention to look into the bond between it and the world, since that doctrine acknowledges a mere fiction as its foundation; this is confirmed especially by the opinions of those who wished the spirit of the world to be Incorporeal. For they, conceiving this world as a kind of great animal, concluded that a soul was necessary for it. This fantasy was labored over not only by PYTHAGORAS, as is gathered from CICERO l.c., but also by TRISMEGISTUS, who calls the World a zoon athanaton immortal animal, Chapter VIII, which is clear from LIPSIUS, Stoic Physiology, Book I, Dissertation VIII, page 18, and likewise CHRYSIPPUS, APOLLODORUS, and POSIDONIUS; Compare LAERTIUS, Book VII, on Zeno, 142 and following, page 455.

However, since truth never consists of fictions, I embrace the judgment published by the Magnificent Dn. D. RECHENBERGIUS, Dissertation cited, Chapter III, § 1, Exercitat. Volum. page 667: "The World Soul is an empty invention of the ancient philosophers." Therefore, of a non-entity there are no predicates nor affections, and thus no connection with another thing, and no bond with a real being. Whatever else JOAN. LUDOVIC. HANNEMANNUS may strive to do in establishing the world soul in the book titled: Hanoch original: "חנוך" Universal World Restored, which appeared in Hamburg, 1670.