Logos Spermatikos

The logos spermatikos, or “seminal reason”, is the Stoic name for the active, rational principle that pervades matter and brings forth the ordered world as a seed brings forth the plant.

An expression of the cosmic Logos, present as countless “seed-reasons” in things, it makes the universe a single living, provident being — and the idea passed, transformed, into later Neoplatonic and Christian thought.