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en-wikipedia-org-2368		Stoic physics - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4670	416	69	Stoicism was a pantheistic philosophy.[3] The cosmos is active, life-giving, rational and creative.[4] It is a single cohesive unit,[5] a self-supporting entity containing within it all that it needs, and all parts depending on mutual exchange with each other.[6] Different parts of this unified structure are able to interact and have an affinity with each other (sympatheia).[7] The Stoics explained everything from natural events to human conduct as manifestations of an all-pervading reason (logos).[1] Thus they identified the universe with God,[3] and the diversity of the world is explained through the transformations and products of God as the rational principle of the cosmos.[8] Divination was an essential element of Greek religion, and the Stoics attempted to reconcile it with their own rational doctrine of strict causation.[33] Since the pneuma of the world-soul pervades the whole universe, this allows human souls to be influenced by divine souls.[50] Omens and portents, Chrysippus explained, are the natural symptoms of certain occurrences.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2368.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2368.txt