The Stoic Cosmos from Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods

An account of the world and its divinity according to the Stoic philosopher Quintus Lucilius Balbus (fl. 100 BC), a character appearing in Cicero's dialogue De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods). This work is part of a collaboration on Stoic philosophy with @TheEsotericaChannel exploring the links between Stoicism and Esotericism, so please check out Dr. Justin Sledge's video "Stoic Origins of Western Occultism, Perennialism, Esoteric Hermeneutics & Magical Correspondences" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx1av438mLY) as a companion piece to this reading.

Translated by H. Rackham (1933)
Read by Dan Attrell

Full text here: https://archive.org/details/de....naturadeorumac00cice

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