The concepts of Nature and the Divine are as old as our desire to perceive and understand that which is around us, both its physical appearance and its underlying principles. In this vein, Nature and the Divine are also conceptual twins governing two different ways of looking at and thinking about the world: the former provides a horizontal track of explaining the spatio-temporal consistence of our immediate and more remote surroundings; the latter provides a vertical track of explaining the innate structural organization of these surroundings. Both concepts represent the two faces of the same coin. They originate together in Greek cosmogony and cosmology, form their separate tracks of explicating the universe in the Presocratics, crystalize their differences in Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, and finally converge (perhaps ironically) in the Neoplatonic tenet that nature is nothing but expression of the divine.
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