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Proposition 30

Our mind, insofar as it knows both itself and the body under a form of eternity, necessarily has a knowledge of God, and knows that it is in God and is conceived through God.

Proposition 33. The intellectual love of God which arises from the third kind of knowledge is eternal.

-In the eternal present
Scholium: Can't take or add to present
Fine tuning to align with present = living a good life

Proposition 34

It is only while the body endures that the mind is subject to passive emotions.

Proposition 21. The mind can exercise neither imagination nor memory save while the body endures.

It is only while the body endures that the mind expresses the actual existence of its body and conceives the affections of the body as actual

Proposition 22. Nevertheless, there is necessarily in God an idea which expresses the essence of this or that human body under a form of eternity [sub specie aeternitatis].

God is the cause not only of the existence of this or that human body but also of its essence, which must therefore necessarily be received through God's essence
Sub Species of eternity = see yourself in the present

Proposition 23. The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

Even if body is destroyed, present still remains

Proposition 21

The mind can exercise neither imagination nor memory save while the body endures.

Proposition 22

Nevertheless, there is necessarily in God an idea which expresses the essence of this or that human body under a form of eternity [sub specie aeternitatis].

Proposition 25. The highest conatus of the mind and its highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge

-Conatus = power to preserve
-3rd kind of knowledge = understanding of eternity
-Understand self in relationship with time
-Highest conatus = understand self and be present in time

Proposition 26. The more capable the mind is of understanding things by the third kind of knowledge, the more it desires to understand things by this same kind of knowledge.

Understanding sub species of eternity = mental tranquility

Proposition 27

From this third kind of knowledge there arises the highest possible contentment of mind.

Proposition 29

Whatever the mind understands under a form of eternity it does not understand from the fact that it conceives the present actual existence of the body, but from the fact that it conceives the essence of the body under a form of eternity.

Proposition 29. Whatever the mind understands under a form of eternity it does not understand from the fact that it conceives the present actual existence of the body, but from the fact that it conceives the essence of the body under a form of eternity

it follows that this power to conceive things under a form of eternity pertains to the mind only insofar as it conceives the essence of the body under a form of eternity.
-Time is only in the present

Proposition 34. It is only while the body endures that the mind is subject to passive emotions

Therefore, an emotion is an imagining insofar as it indicates the present state of the body.
C: Romantic love is temporary, relative. Intellectual love >

Proposition 23

the human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

Proposition 25

The highest conatus of the mind and its highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.

Proposition 26

The more capable the mind is of understanding things by the third kind of knowledge, the more it desires to understand things by this same kind of knowledge.

Proposition 27. From this third kind of knowledge there arises the highest possible contentment of mind

Understanding sub species of eternity = mental tranquility

Proposition 31

The third kind of knowledge depends on the mind as its formal cause insofar as the mind is eternal.

Proposition 32

We take pleasure in whatever we understand by the third kind of knowledge, and this is accompanied by the idea of God as cause.

Proposition 33

The intellectual love of God which arises from the third kind of knowledge is eternal.

Proposition 35.

God loves himself with an infinite intellectual love.

Proposition 35. God loves himself with an infinite intellectual love.

God has an experience of Godness through you. God dependent on you for experience of being - learns particularity

Proposition 36

The mind's intellectual love towards God is the love of God wherewith God loves himself not insofar as he is infinite, but insofar as he can be explicated through the essence of the human mind considered under a form of eternity. That is, the mind's intellectual love towards God is part of the infinite love wherewith God loves himself.

Proposition 36. The mind's intellectual love towards God is the love of God wherewith God loves himself not insofar as he is infinite, but insofar as he can be explicated through the essence of the human mind considered under a form of eternity. That is, the mind's intellectual love towards God is part of the infinite love wherewith God loves himself.

Scholium: We have to choose to live: in time (relative) or together with time (absolute) (authentic)

Proposition 39

He whose body is capable of the greatest amount of activity has a mind whose greatest part is eternal.

Proposition 39. He whose body is capable of the greatest amount of activity has a mind whose greatest part is eternal.

Living in the present = no fear of dying

Proposition 42

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. We do not enjoy blessedness because we keep our lusts in check. On the contrary, it is because we enjoy blessedness that we are able to keep our lusts in check.

Proposition 42. Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. We do not enjoy blessedness because we keep our lusts in check. On the contrary, it is because we enjoy blessedness that we are able to keep our lusts in check.

-Virtue for the sake of virtue
-End of suffering = living in the present (sub species of eternity)

Letter 12: Substance

-existence pertains to its essence
-only one
-infinite

Letter 12: "However, if you ask why we have such a strong natural tendency to divide extended Substance, I answer that we conceive quantity in two ways: abstractly, or superficially"

We superimpose our limited conception on reality

Letter 12: "If someone conceives Duration in this abstracted way and, confusing it with Time, begins dividing it into parts, he can never understand how, for instance, an hour can pass by"

Zeno's paradox. Infinitely divisible

Letter 12: "Time to limit Duration, and Measure to limit Quantity in such wise that we thereby enabled to form images of them as best we may"

Separate Affections of Substance from Substance itself, and arrange them in classes so that we can form images of them

Letter 12: "Certain things are infinite by their own nature and cannot in any way be conceived as finite, while other things are infinite by virtue of the cause in which they have their being, and when the latter are conceived in abstraction, they can be divided into parts and be regarded as finite"

Substance is infinite
Modes arent