...pt. 2) an idea of the human mind. Moreover, this idea or knowledge of the mind does not exist in God in so far as He is infinite, but in so far as He is affected by another idea of an individual thing (Prop. 9, pt. 2). But the order and connection of ideas...

...we say that the human mind perceives this or that, we are saying nothing else but this: that God — not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he constitutes the essence of the human mind — has this or that idea'. Spinoza, Wilson comments, distinguishes...

...reads as follows: "The intellectual love of the mind for God is the love by which God loves himself; not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he can be explained through the essence of the human mind, considered under a species of eternity; that...

...XXXVI. The intellectual love of the mind toward God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself, not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he can be explained through the essence of the human mind regarded under the form of eternity ; in other...

...love of God. : The mind's intellectual love of God is the very love of God by which God loves himself, not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he can be explained by the human mind's essence, considered under a species of eternity; ie, the mind's...

...Philosophy, 2, 1972, pp. 176-177. The idea of an individual thing existing in actuality has God for its cause not in so far as he is infinite but in so far as he is considered as affected by another idea of a thing existing in actuality, of which God is the cause...