First of all,

 Spinoza was not an ethereal man.

 Spinoza was not a prophet, as we know it.

 His philosophy can not be named or bordered by any religious

 point of view.

 Even his pholosophy can not be named or bordered solely by

 pantheism.

 His philosophy can not be named or bordered by panentheism

 at all.

 His pholosophy can not be named or bordered solely by

 atheism.

 Not any raligious point of view

 Not pantheism

 Not panentheism

 Not solely an ateism

 His philosophy is beyond all these definitions.

 May be his philosophy can be named A KIND OF MATERIALISM or

 ATHEISM.

 We shouldn't attempt to connect his philosophy to any

 religious or politic ideology or concept.

 Yes Novalis said for Spinoza "God intoxicated man",

 But this is not true as far as I understand his philosophy.

 Yes German Romantics love him and his philosophy as a kind

 of naturalism.

 But this point of view is insufficient, as far as I

 understand his philosophy.

 He says "Deus sive Natura'.

 That is to say, All Universe (maybe Multiverse) itself is

 God.

 This means that "Dynamiting all Religion", "Dynamiting all religious

 point of view"

 Spinoza's God, that is to say "Deus sive Natura" exactly not

 a TRANSCENDENTAL GOD,

 but an IMMANENT GOD.

 Religious God is transcendental. Religious God is beyond of

 the universe and all creatures.

 Religious God creates all the universe and all the created

 things. This God designs them, controls them, punishes them, 

 rewards them etc.. Religious God is antrapomorphic.

 But Spinoza's God is not transcendental but immanent.

 Spinoza's God has no any plan or program about his creaters

 like Religious God.

 Doesn't care them. Doesn't punishes or rewards them. Doesnt

 promise anything to it's creaters.

 Spinoza's God doesn't CREATES anything, but everything

 DERIVES from Spinoza's God, from Natura.

 NATURA NATURATA derives from NATURA NATURANS, unceasingly.

 So energetic, so lively, so colorful.so dynamic, so

 harmonic, so rhythmic and of course so wonderful.

 This deriveness is magical. This is extraordinary beautiful

 panorama for sighted people.

 Like Blake McBride said, this point of view needs very very

 much effort and practise with "Third Kind of Knowledge of Spinoza and 

 plus Fourth Dimension Looking".

 Maybe a kind of Nirvana. But a zen budhist only watchs whole MAYA. 

 But spinoza teaches LIVING IN REAL LIFE WITHOUT FORGETTING

 PERSEPECTIVE of ETERNITY.. 

 Yes. Spinoza's philosophy teaches to see things from

 perspective of eternity.

 Yes Sphinoza's philosophy teaches people to see their lives

 in a cosmic contex.

 Not only the infinity of space but the eternity of time as

 well.

 This perspective of eternity is the most important pillar of

 his philosophy, but this doesn't mean that this extraordinarily beautiful 

 panorama not only for watching like being hypnotized look but more importantly

 for LIVING.

 Already The biggest difference between Spinoza and the other

 philosophers is, this LIVING PHILOSOPHY.

 Spinoza is a philosohper of daily life. He never advice or

 teaches to live in a glass vase or in a crystal ball.

 Niever says this.

 He was never an asocial man and his philosophy is never an

 asocial philosophy, his philosophy is never

 life escapee philosophy.

 Spinoza teachs to evreyone to combine their CONATUS' to

 other CONATUS'

 So there is a sociality here, there is an association here,

 there is a philosophy of contact here,

 there is a philosophy of merging powers here.

 Luis asks in his mail that "how Spinoza's philosophy can be

 solved teh problem of to

 deal with malignant people and situations (ie., Hitler,

 Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, The Inquisition, 

 Salem Witch trials, psychopaths running around, etc.)?"

 My answer is:

 "if Spinoza would live here in todays world he probably

 would be an anticapitalist,

 he would be antifaschist, he would be disobeident man

 against all manipulative brain washings of systems,

 always beside of freedom discourses especially he would

 support A REAL DEMOCRASY.

 ('But unfodrtunately I myself can't see any real democrasy

 in this world:)

 Oguz (love from Istanbul)