 Lipsius connected the Stoic definition of nature found in Diogenes Laertius (VII.156), “a craftsmanlike fire proceeding to create,” to the one provided by Stobaeus (Eclogues I.29) and Plutarch (in fact he quotes Aetius; cf. SVF II.1027): “God is a craftmanlike fire proceeding methodically to create the world, and containing within itself all the seminal reasons; then, in accordance with these, everything is constructed by fate” (Physiologia I.6).