They think that there are two general principles in the universe, the active and the passive. That the passive is matter, an existence without any distinctive quality. That the active is the reason which exists in the passive, that is to say, God. For that he, being eternal, and existing throughout all matter, makes everything... They also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind, and Fate, and Jupiter, and by many other names besides. And that, as he was in the beginning by himself, he turned into water the whole substance which pervaded the air; and as the seed is contained in the produce, so too, he being the seminal principle of the world, remained behind in moisture, making matter fit to be employed by himself in the production of those things which were to come after; and then, first of all, he made the four elements, fire, water, air, and earth... They also speak of the world in a threefold sense; at one time meaning God himself, whom they call a being of a certain quality, having for his peculiar manifestation universal substance, a being imperishable, and who never had any generation, being the maker of the arrangement and order that we see; and who, after certain periods of time, absorbs all substance in himself, and then re-produces it from himself. — Diogenes Laertius, *Lives*, VII.68, 70 (tr. C. D. Yonge, 1853) **Surface Gloss:** The universe consists of two co-eternal principles: qualityless passive matter and the active immanent Reason (God/Zeus), who operates as a "seminal principle" (*logos spermatikos*) inside cosmic moisture and periodically reabsorbs and regenerates the entire cosmos. Build projects, books, and organizations via **Seminal Architecture (*Logos Spermatikos*)** rather than top-down mechanical assembly. Instead of bolting dead parts together from the outside like a carpenter, compress the entire governing logic, aesthetic, and rule-set of the project into a dense, self-replicating "seed" (a founding charter, a core codebase kernel, or a 1-page narrative DNA) and immerse it in the raw material so every local part grows out of the same internal blueprint.
— In our words · Source: Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Diogenes Laertius)