It was this same idea, that the world possesses a soul of sorts, like a living being, which would later be termed ‘animism’ (Latin anima, meaning soul ). This ‘cosmology’(or conception of the cosmos) was also described as ‘hylozoism’, literally meaning that matter (hyle) is analogous to what is animal (zoon): that it is alive, in other words. The same doctrine would also be described by the term ‘pantheism’ (the doctrine that nature and the physical universe are constituents of the essence of God; from Greek pan, ‘all’, and theos, meaning ‘God’): that all is God, since it is the totality of
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