Stories
the narratives it tells itself
The cherem of 1656.
Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish community expelled Spinoza at twenty-three in terms of unusual violence, forbidding anyone to speak with him or read anything he wrote. It has never been lifted.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseSpinoza, Ethics (1677)
The Principles of Scientific Pantheism (World Pantheist Movement)
Passages in the Upanishads and the Tao Te Ching, claimed retrospectively