Meditations IV.14

Thou hast subsisted as part of the Whole.²⁵ Thou shalt vanish into that which begat thee, or rather thou shalt be taken again into its Seminal Reason²⁶ by a process of change.

• 25.See ii. 3.
• 26.The primal Fire and the eternal Reason are one and the same, and held to contain the seed of all things. Compare Justin Martyr’s Apology ii. 8, 13, for λόγος σπερματικός used of Christ.

  The Stoic term is logos spermatikos, “seminal reason”: the rational principle containing the seeds from which all things develop. Justin Martyr, in his Second Apology, applies the phrase to the divine Word, a share of which he held to be present in all people.