 According to Lipsius, this showed that the Stoics believed the world to be the principal creation of God, in whom were contained the seeds of fate which controlled the birth of individual things. This fire or God, containing the seminal reasons (rationes seminales), ideas or forms of all existing things, is a Lipsian innovation, deriving from the Neoplatonic and Christian traditions (he quotes John of Damascus, De orthodoxa fide 13). Lipsius compares this notion to the biblical account of Moses seeing the light glowing in the bush (Exod. 3:2) and the pillar of fire which leads the Israelites through the wilderness (Exod. 14:19), and also to the burning tongues of the Apostles (Acts 2:3; Physiologia I.6).