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who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →The ultimate — what this line takes as final
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The one substance.
Not a person, not a mind, not a maker — and therefore not something that can want anything from you. Spinoza still called it God, and meant it.
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Founders & teachers — the ones who opened the way
B
Baruch Spinoza — the lens grinder.
He turned down a chair at Heidelberg to keep his freedom to write, published almost nothing under his own name in his lifetime, and died at forty-four in rented rooms in The Hague.
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