In Mutual Relation
Particular phenomena
Succession proceeds
Through freedom
Spinoza could not tolerate separation between ideas and things outside us. In his formulation, Ideal thought and real objectivity are intimately united in our nature. They are only modifications of one and the same ideal nature, an infinite from which arose affections and modification of an endless series of finite things.
“The ideal world presses mightily towards the light, but is still held back by the fact that Nature has withdrawn as a mystery.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling