The “all” for the Stoics has the character of a sphere. This great copula encloses everything that is, and in it all forces, inward and outward, are balanced. Stoicism, taken as a whole, is meant to mirror this balance; it is meant to enclose and relate all aspects of conscious experience. To that extent, Stoicism includes both reason and logic and the natural sciences on the one hand, and faith on the other. These two sides—I’ll call them reason and faith for brevity, though I don’t mean to imply that they are really opposed—are united by and in cosmology for the Stoics. In Stoic cosmology,
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