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From the third kind of knowledge necessarily arises the intellectual love of God. From this kind of knowledge arises pleasure accompanied by the idea of God as cause, that is (Def. of the Emotions, vi.), the love of God; not in so far as we imagine him as present (V. xxix.), but in so far as we understand him to be eternal; this is what I call the intellectual love of God.Spinoza, Benedictus de is the author of 'Ethics On The Power Of The Understanding Or Of Human Freedom', published 2004 under ISBN 9781419118562 and ISBN 1419118560.
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