 In all these cases the Spirit of Nature is required to intervene, although More is vague upon precisely how it intervenes. Later on More develops the idea that the Spirit of Nature can “unite and as it were cohere” (uniatur &amp; quasi cohaerescat) with body in order to move it (More 1671, 398; translated in More 1682, 174). In the Immortality of the soul, however, he seems to imply that it simply communicates the laws of nature to the relevant systems, since he describes it as “a mute copy of the eternal Word (that is, of that Divine Wisedome that is entirely everywhere)” which