Immanence

The principle that the Logos does not exist outside or above the world, but rather dwells and operates within all existing things.

Immanence (from Latin immanere, to dwell within) is, in Stoic metaphysics, the opposite of transcendence. The Logos does not act upon things from without; rather, it works from within all things — in matter, in the processes of nature, and in human reason. This fundamentally distinguishes Stoicism from theistic religions that posit a transcendent God, and makes Stoic cosmology an immanentist system.