The statue of Spinoza in the Hague
“God is only Nature,”
Thought he in his eye lab.
“All things are one creature.”
Growing in a pasture
Viewed from a grassy tab,
God is only Nature.
Atomic essence immature
He ponders there to grab
All things are one creature.
Attributes essential, pure
Develop from one stab –
God is only Nature.
That god in us is sure;
Despite a genetic dab,
All things are one creature.
We can grow; such a lure
Rips us from paternal gab.
God is only Nature –
All things are one creature.
2008
"Spinoza Dicta" is a villanelle that was included in the unpublished work An Operose Hierodule of the Muse, 2008. Spinoza is often labeled the first modern philosopher because he is the first to lose the idea of a separate God the Creator. His idea is that we are all part of god. He is my favorite because so much of what he thought has influenced all other philosophers after him, including the ideas of democracy adhered to by the founding fathers of the United States of America.
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