Full Idea
At certain fated times the entire cosmos goes up in flames and then is organised again. And the primary fire is like a kind of seed, containing the rational principles and cause of all things and events, past, present and future.
Gist of Idea
The cosmos is regularly consumed and reorganised by the primary fire
Source
report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Aristocles - works
A Reaction
[in Eusebius] I wonder why the stoics thought this? Is it just spring cleaning? So is each cycle different? Does that mean that the primary fire was different at each seminal event? What made it different? Or is it eternal recurrence?
Book Reference
'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.96
Related Idea
Idea 20828 Fire is a separate element, not formed with others (as was previously believed) [Chrysippus, by Stobaeus]