As you have probably noticed, the Stoic doctrine of salvation is resolutely anonymous and impersonal. It promises us eternity, certainly, but of a non-personal kind, as an oblivious fragment of the cosmos: death, for the Stoic, is a mere rite of passage, which involves a transition from a state of individual consciousness – you and I, as living and thinking beings – to a state of oneness with the cosmos, in the course of which we lose everything that constitutes our self-awareness and individuality.
