[6] The term was introduced to English by Irish writer John Toland in his 1705 work Socinianism Truly Stated, By A Pantheist, which described pantheism as the "opinion of those who believe in no other eternal being but the universe".
[8] Joseph Needham, a modern British scholar of Chinese philosophy and science, identified Taoism and the technology of the Wuxing as "a naturalistic pantheism which emphasizes the unity and spontaneity of the operations of Nature".
[11] The Hellenistic Greek philosophical school of Stoicism (which started in the early 3rd century BCE)[12] rejected the dualist idea of the separate ideal/conscious and material realms, and identified the substance of God with the entire cosmos and heaven.
[5] In 1705, the Irish writer John Toland endorsed a form of pantheism in which the God-soul is identical with the material universe.
[7][15][16] German naturalist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919)[17] proposed a monistic pantheism in which the idea of God is identical with that of nature or substance.