Editing Apokatastasis (section)

===Stoicism<!--linked from 'Chrysippus'-->===
According to Edward Moore, ''apokatastasis'' was first properly conceptualized in early [[Stoicism|Stoic thought]], particularly by [[Chrysippus]]. The return (''apokatastasis'') of the planets and stars to their proper ''celestial signs'', namely their original positions, would spark a conflagration of the universe (''[[ekpyrosis]]''). The original position was believed to consist of an alignment of celestial bodies with [[Cancer (astrology)|Cancer]].  Thereafter, from fire, rebirth would commence, and this cycle of alternate destruction and recreation was correlated with a divine [[Logos]]. ''Antapokatastasis'' is a counter-recurrence when the stars and planets align with [[Capricorn (astrology)|Capricorn]], which would mark destruction by a universal flood.<ref>{{Citation | first = Edward | last = Moore | title = Origen of Alexandria and St. Maximus the Confessor | publisher = Universal-Publishers | year = 2005 | pages = 25–27}}.</ref>

The Stoics identified Zeus with an alternately expanding and contracting fire constituting the universe. Its expansion was described as Zeus turning his thoughts outwards, resulting in the creation of the material [[cosmos]], and its contraction, the ''apokatastasis'', as Zeus returning to self-contemplation.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.iep.utm.edu/o/origen.htm | contribution = Origen of Alexandria (185–254) | title = The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | access-date = September 20, 2006}}.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first1=Edward |last1=Moore |date=January 2003 |title=Origen of Alexandria and apokatastasis: Some Notes on the Development of a Noble Notion |journal=Quodlibet Journal |volume=5 |issue=1 |issn=1526-6575 |url=http://www.quodlibet.net/articles/moore-origen.shtml |access-date=2010-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214114623/http://www.quodlibet.net/articles/moore-origen.shtml |archive-date=2010-02-14 }}</ref> [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Leibniz]] explored both Stoic and his understanding of Origen's philosophy in two essays written shortly before his death, ''Apokatastasis'' and ''Apokatastasis panton'' (1715).<ref>{{Citation | first = Allison | last = Coudert | title = Leibniz and the Kabbalah | page = 110 | year = 1995 | quote = Having initially accepted the idea of apocatastasis in the pre-Origen and primarily Stoic sense that this world and everything in it was bound to return again and again in endless cycles of repetition, Leibniz came to embrace Origen's wholly…}}</ref>