Spinoza Forbidden Truth God Never Created You

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[00:00:00]Every religion on earth begins with the same comforting story. In the beginning, God created. We are taught to believe that we are the products of a divine carpenter, a father who sat in the void, thought of our names, and decided to bring us into existence. But Baroo Spinosza, the philosopher who was cursed and cast out of his community for monstrous heresies, makes a claim that shatters the very foundation of your faith. He argues that God never created you. He claims that the moment you say God created the world, you have effectively killed the infinity of God.

[00:00:34]To Spinosa, you are not a creature made by a master, you are a ripple in an ocean that has no shore. Today, we deconstruct the most dangerous idea in history. Why creation is a myth and why your existence is far more terrifying and magnificent than a mere act of will.

[00:00:52]The concept of creation is the ultimate anchor of the human ego. It tells us that we are intentional, that we are separate from the divine, and that there was a time when we were not and a god who decided we should be. It frames our relationship with the infinite as one of a subject to a king or a child to a father. However, Baroo Spinosa in his magnumopus ethics presents a logical execution of this belief. Spinosza's forbidden truth is rooted in the definition of substance. If God is infinite, there can be nothing outside of him. If God created the universe as a separate entity, then where does God end and the universe begin? To create something implies a lack. It implies that God felt the need for something that didn't yet exist. But an infinite perfect being cannot lack anything.

[00:01:43]Therefore, Spinosa posits that God and nature are one and the same. Deasiv Nura, the image of the master builder.

[00:01:51]For many centuries, the human heart has found a deep and lasting comfort in a specific image of the divine. We were taught to look at the vast beauty of the stars, the intricate design of the human eye, and the rhythmic turning of the seasons, and to see the handiwork of a master carpenter. We imagined a great architect who sat in the silence of the void, looked over a set of blueprints, and made a conscious decision to begin a project. In this traditional story, God is a craftsman. He has a will like ours, a purpose like ours, and most importantly, he has choice. We are told that he could have chosen to create a different world or perhaps no world at all. This makes us feel special for it suggests we are a planned gift. But Baroo Spinosza, the philosopher of the infinite, suggests that this image, this carpenter god, is actually a mirror of our own human vanity. He argues that by giving God the power of choice, we have actually made God smaller, weaker, and far too much like a man. The error of the human mirror. Spinosa invites us to look at why we love the idea of a creator who chooses. It is because we as humans live our lives through choices.

[00:03:06]We decide what to eat, where to walk, and what to build. Because we find these abilities noble in ourselves, we project them onto the infinite. We say if I am a creator of small things then God must be a creator of all things. However, Spinosa identifies this as the root of all superstition. When we give God a will that can choose between this or that we are implying that God has a personality that can change. We are suggesting that God could have been different. But if God is the most perfect and infinite being, how can he be different from what he is? To choose implies that one option is better than another. If God chose to create this world because it was better, it means that before he created it, he was lacking that goodness. It implies a change from a state of not having to a state of having. Spinosa's forbidden truth is that a perfect infinite being cannot change, cannot lack, and cannot wait for a moment to decide. The carpenter is a character we invented to make the terrifying vastness of the universe feel like a cozy workshop. The logic of flowing necessity. If God did not choose to build the world like a carpenter, then how did the world come to be? Spinosa replaces the building with the unfolding. Imagine a fountain that is infinite and eternal. The water does not choose to flow out of the fountain. The flowing is simply what the fountain does. It is the very nature of the fountain to pour forth. Or imagine the sun in the sky. The sun does not sit in the morning and think, "I believe I shall shine today." The shining is not a choice. It is the essence of being a son. Spinosza argues that the universe flows from the nature of God in exactly the same way. He uses the term necessity. This means that everything that exists from the furthest galaxy to the smallest thought in your mind exists because it is a logical and inevitable result of God's existence. There was never a before where God sat alone and an after where the world began. God and his expressions are eternal. The universe is not a product that God made and then stepped away from. The universe is the expression of God's power. It flows from him with the same unyielding logic that the properties of a circle flow from the definition of a circle. A circle does not choose to be round. Its roundness is a necessity of its being.

[00:05:28]Why necessity is greater than choice? To the religious mind, the word necessity often sounds cold. It feels like we are living in a machine rather than a family. But Spinosa argues that the logic of necessity is actually far more divine than the whim of a carpenter. If God chooses to create, then God is like a king who might change his mind. A king who can choose to be kind can also choose to be cruel. A king who can choose to create can also choose to ignore. This leaves the human soul in a state of constant anxiety, forever begging a person in the sky to change his mind and perform a miracle. But a god of necessity is a god of absolute reliability. In Spinosa's world, the laws of nature are the very will of God.

[00:06:14]These laws do not change because they are perfect. The sun will rise, the cause will lead to the effect, and the logic of the universe will never falter.

[00:06:23]There is a deep majestic peace in knowing that the universe is not governed by the moods of a great person, but by the eternal and perfect structure of the infinite substance. When we stop looking for a carpenter who might fix our problems with a miracle, we are finally free to see the beauty of the law. We realize that we are not living in a house built by a stranger. We are living inside the very life of God itself. The end of the grand design.

[00:06:50]This leads us to a challenging realization. If God did not choose to create the world, then there is no grand design or purpose in the way humans understand it. A carpenter builds a chair for a purpose to sit. Humans want to believe that God built the world for a purpose for us. We want to believe that we are the center of the story. But Spinosa reveals that the grand design is another human fiction. The universe does not exist for anything. It simply is.

[00:07:17]This does not mean life is meaningless.

[00:07:20]It means that meaning is not something given to us by a master builder. Meaning is something we discover when we use our reason to understand the infinite. When we understand a law of nature, we are seeing the mind of God. When we see the necessity of all things, we stop being angry at the world for not being what we want it to be. We move from the childhood of faith, where we beg a father for favors, to the maturity of the spirit, where we love the divine for its own sake. We love God not because he chose us, but because he is the reality that sustains us. The forbidden truth of this first chapter is a call to intellectual courage. It asks us to bury the image of the carpenter god and the human-like will. It asks us to accept a god who is much larger, much more silent, and much more perfect. God never created you as a separate project. You are a ripple in the infinite ocean. You are a note in the eternal song. You exist because the nature of God is so vast and so powerful that it must express itself in an infinite variety of ways. And one of those ways is you. You were not made by a choice. You were born of a logic. And because that logic is eternal, you are held in a grip that can never be broken. You are not a guest in a workshop. You are an essential part of the substance that has no beginning and no end. The carpenter is gone, but the reality is finally here. In the next chapter, we will see that because you were never created as a separate thing, you can never truly be alone. The Spinosa insight. The eyes of the mind by which it sees and observes things are none other than the proofs of necessity.

[00:09:03]Do not ask why the master builder made the world. Realize instead that the world is the very breath of the infinite flowing forth because it cannot do otherwise. In this truth, you will find the only peace that is real. The illusion of the great gap. In the traditional stories of our faith, we are taught to see ourselves as products. We are the pots and God is the potter. We are the paintings and God is the artist.

[00:09:29]This way of thinking creates a great gap, a vast lonely distance between the divine and the human. It suggests that God exists over there in some distant heaven and we exist down here as separate objects that he manufactured and sent into the world. This product model is the foundation of most religions. It makes us feel like guests in a house we do not own or like children waiting for a father to acknowledge our presence. But Baruk Spinosa with the sharp scalpel of his mind cuts through this illusion. He argues that the moment you say you are a creature separate from God, you have misunderstood the very nature of infinity. If God is infinite, there is no place where God ends and you begin.

[00:10:11]In this chapter, we explore the forbidden truth that you are not a thing God made. You are a mode, a specific way that God is being alive right now. The problem with being created, Spinosa asks us to think deeply about what infinite actually means. If God is the infinite substance, then God is the only stuff that exists. There is no other material in the universe. There is no non-God space where God could reach out and place a human being. When we say God created us, we usually imagine him taking some clay, which is not him, and blowing life into it. But where did the clay come from? If God had to use something that was not himself to make us, then God is not the only substance.

[00:10:57]If God made us out of nothing and now we exist as separate things outside of him, then God is no longer infinite because he is stopped by the boundary of our skin. Spinosa reveals that the product model is a logical error. You cannot have an infinite God and a separate you.

[00:11:14]Therefore, the only way for you to exist is if you are inside the divine, made of the divine, and living as a movement of the divine. You are not a product sent away from the factory. You are a ripple in the very heart of the power that sustains all things, understanding the mode, the way of being. Spinosa replaces the word creature with a much more powerful word mode. To understand what a mode is, think of it as a way of being.

[00:11:41]Think of the ocean. The ocean is vast and deep. When a wave rises on the surface of the water, the wave is not a creature that the ocean manufactured.

[00:11:50]The wave is not a separate object that the ocean made and then put in a box.

[00:11:55]The wave is the ocean expressing itself in a specific movement. The wave is not a thing. It is an activity. The wave has no existence without the water. This is what Spinosa means when he says you are a mode of God. You are a specific wave in the infinite substance. Your physical body is a mode of God's extension, the physical world. And your mind is a mode of God's thought. You are the infinite acting through a finite point in time and space. When you breathe, it is not just you breathing. It is the power of the infinite expressing the activity of breathing as you. You are a unique vibration in the eternal song.

[00:12:36]Expression versus manufacturer. This shift in perspective changes everything about our relationship with the divine.

[00:12:44]In the traditional view, God is like a manufacturer. A manufacturer makes a chair and once the chair is finished, the manufacturer can walk away and leave the chair in a room. The chair is saved by its own wooden structure. But in Spinosa's world, God is an expressor.

[00:13:01]Think of a singer singing a note. The note is not made and then left to sit in the air. The note only exists as long as the singer is actively singing it. The moment the singer stops, the note vanishes. You are like that note. You are an expression of God's power. You do not have a life of your own that was given to you as a gift to keep. You have a life that is being actively lived by the infinite as you. If God were to stop expressing you for even a single second, you would not just die. You would cease to have ever been. You are held in existence by a continuous eternal flow of power. This is the ultimate intimacy.

[00:13:39]You are not a separate object that God is watching from a distance. You are the very activity of God in this moment. The death of the lonely ego. The most forbidden part of this truth is what it does to our ego. We love the idea of being a creature because it gives us a sense of separate ownership. We say this is my life, my soul, my choices. We want to be a tiny kingdom inside the larger kingdom of God. Spinosa reveals that this separate eye is an illusion. If you are a mode, your boundaries are not nearly as solid as you think. You are a part of a massive interconnected web of cause and effect. Your thoughts are not yours in a vacuum. They are ripples from previous thoughts and the eternal logic of God. Your body is a temporary gathering of God's extension. When you realize you are a mode, you lose the lonesomeness of the creature. You stop feeling like an orphan who has to earn the love of a father. How can a wave ask the ocean to love it? The wave is the ocean. How can a ray of light ask the sun to remember it? The ray is the sun's activity. The forbidden truth is that you do not need to find God because you are a movement of God. You cannot be lost because there is nowhere outside of the infinite for you to go. The true dignity of the mode. Some people feel that being a mode makes them less important than being a creature. They feel like they are just a part of a machine. But Spininoza argues that the dignity of the mode is far greater than the dignity of the creature. A creature is a slave to its master. A creature can be judged, punished, and thrown away.

[00:15:18]But a mode is an essential expression of the divine. You are a way that the infinite is experiencing the world.

[00:15:26]Through your eyes, the infinite sees the sunset. Through your mind, the infinite thinks about its own nature. You are not a tool used by God. You are a participant in the divine life. When you stop seeing yourself as a product and start seeing yourself as an expression, your fear of life and death begins to fade. You realize that while the specific wave of your individual life will eventually return to the stillness of the deep, the water of your being can never be destroyed. You are not a guest in the universe. You are the universe manifesting as a human soul. Part two of Spinoza's autopsy of creation tells us that the great gap between God and man was always a lie of the imagination.

[00:16:06]There is no distance to travel, no bridge to build, and no debt to pay. You were never created as a separate entity because the infinite has no outside. You are the divine in a specific form. You are the eternal in a temporary mask. The myth of the potter and the clay is replaced by the reality of the ocean and the wave. By accepting that you are a mode, you surrender the pride of the separate ego, but you gain the peace of the infinite. You are no longer a thing that might be forgotten. You are an activity that is eternally necessary. In the next chapter, we will see why this means there was never a beginning to your story and why you are far more ancient than you ever dared to believe.

[00:16:49]The Spinosa insight. Whatever is is in God and without God nothing can be or be conceived. Do not think of yourself as a product of a master's hand, but as a ray of the eternal light. When the ray understands the sun, the darkness of fear is forever gone. You are not a creature in the world. You are the divine power manifesting as a world. The comfort of the clock. Since the first moment we opened our eyes as a species, we have been obsessed with the beginning. We tell stories of a first day, a first light, and a first breath.

[00:17:23]Our holy books all begin with the same promise that there was a before when the world was silent and then a moment when a divine will decided that the silence should end. We love this story because it makes the universe feel like a book with a cover. A story with a clear starting line. It makes us feel that our time is a precious gift given to us by a god who has a watch and a calendar. But Baroo Spininoza looking into the heart of the infinite invites us to a truth that is both terrifying and magnificent.

[00:17:54]He argues that time is not a reality of God. It is a limitation of the human mind. He tells us that the beginning is a ghost and the will we cherish is a shadow. In this third part of our journey, we dismantle the illusion of the clock to find the eternal now. We discover that the death of the beginning is not the end of the world but the birth of your true immortality. The myth of in the beginning. Traditional religion teaches us that God sat in a vacuum for an eternity and then at a specific coordinate of time he felt a desire to create. Spinosa asks a question that shatters this image. What was God waiting for? If God is perfect and if God is the source of all things, why would he wait an eternity to express himself? If he chose a specific moment to start the world, it implies that the moment before the start was somehow different or less perfect. It implies that God was bored or lonely or incomplete until he started the clock.

[00:18:55]The eternal map, seeing beyond the line.

[00:18:59]To understand how Spinosa views time, imagine a massive detailed map of the entire world. On that map, the city of London, the city of New York, and the city of Tokyo all exist at the exact same time. They are all there, fixed and real. However, imagine a tiny ant walking across that map. To the ant, New York is the past, London is the present, and Tokyo is the future. The ant experiences these places one by one in a line. But the ant's experience does not change the reality that all those cities exist simultaneously on the paper.

[00:19:35]Spinosa tells us that we are the ant and time is our walk. We experience life as a sequence of seconds and years because we can only see a tiny fragment of reality at a once. But from the perspective of the infinite, what Spinosa calls subspecies eternitatus under the aspect of eternity, your birth, your life, and the eventual change of your body all exist together in one perfect logical structure. There is no beginning that is lost in the past. There is only a hole that is always here. The ghost of free will. If there is no beginning and no choice in God, what happens to our own free will?

[00:20:15]This is the part of Spinoza's truth that many find the most difficult to swallow.

[00:20:20]We love to believe that we are the captains of our souls that we stand at a crossroads every morning and choose our path. Spinosa offers a famous and humbling analogy. Imagine a stone that is thrown through the air. As the stone flies, imagine it is suddenly given a tiny bit of consciousness. The stone feels the wind. It feels the speed. And it thinks to itself, I am choosing to fly. I am moving toward that tree because I want to. The stone believes it has free will simply because it is aware of its movement, but it is ignorant of the hand that threw it. Spinosa argues that humans are exactly like that stone.

[00:20:57]We are aware of our desires, our hungers, and our choices. But we are largely ignorant of the infinite chain of causes that led us to those choices.

[00:21:07]You think you chose to read these words, but your choice was the result of your curiosity, which was the result of your education, which was the result of your parents, which was the result of a thousand years of history. Free will is just the name we give to our ignorance.

[00:21:22]God didn't give you a will to choose between good and evil like a test. You are a part of the divine logic. Your actions flow from your nature with the same necessity that water flows downhill. The chain with no first link.

[00:21:36]Religion wants us to believe in a first push, a moment where God tipped the first domino. Spinosza reveals that the chain of cause and effect has no first link. Every event in the universe is caused by a previous event which was caused by another going back into an infinite past. God is not the first cause who stands outside the chain. God is the chain itself. God is the law that connects every moment to every other moment. By removing the beginning, Spininoza removes the idea of a grand goal. We are taught that the world is moving toward a judgment day or a final end. But if there is no beginning, there is no end. The universe is not going anywhere. It is already there. It is the eternal expression of God's power. We aren't in a race to a finish line. We are in an eternal dance, the freedom of acceptance. At first, the death of the beginning and the loss of free will might feel like a prison. You might feel like a puppet in a machine, but Spinosa argues that this is the only path to true freedom. As long as you believe in the illusion of will, you are a slave to your emotions. You feel regret for the choices you made in the past. You feel anxiety for the choices you have to make in the future. You live in a state of constant war with reality, wishing things were different than they are. But when you accept necessity, the war ends.

[00:22:59]You stop regretting the past because you realize it was the necessary result of the laws of nature. You stop fearing the future because you realize that you are held in the grip of a perfect infinite logic. You stop being angry at others because you realize they are stones flying through the air just like you.

[00:23:16]This is the peace of the infinite. You move from a passive life where you are tossed around by hope and fear to an active life where you understand the laws of the universe and align yourself with them. You realize that you don't need a beginning to be real and you don't need a will to be significant. You are an essential note in an eternal song that never started and will never end.

[00:23:38]God is not a creator who started you.

[00:23:40]God is the reality that is you right now eternally. When you stop waiting for a future heaven and stop mourning a lost paradise, you finally find the divine.

[00:23:51]You find it in the logic of the moment.

[00:23:53]You find it in the unyielding beauty of the laws of nature. You realize that while your specific name and form are temporary modes of the ocean, the essence of who you are has always been here. The beginning is dead. The now is infinite. You are not a creature of time. You are an expression of the eternal. In our final chapter, we will see that because there is no separation and no beginning, there is also no fear, only the magnificent quiet joy of belonging to the substance that is all in all. The Spinosa insight. Time is nothing but a mode of thinking. To the mind that sees things as God sees them, there is no was and no will be. There is only the glorious, necessary, and perfect is. Do not seek to change the will of the infinite. Seek only to understand it. And in that understanding, you shall find the only freedom that can never be taken away.

[00:24:50]The great silence of the father. We have reached the final shoreline of our journey. We have watched the carpenter god fade into the mists of history. We have surrendered the illusion of being a separate creature and accepted our place as a mode of the divine. We have even let go of the ticking clock and the myth of the beginning. To many this feels like a great loss. It feels as though the world has become a cold machine, silent and indifferent to our human cries. If there is no father to hear our prayers, no creator to judge our lives, and no will to guide our steps, then what is left? Baroo Spinosa tells us that what is left is peace. For centuries, we have lived in a state of spiritual anxiety. Always wondering if we have pleased the master. Always fearing that we might be cast out of the garden. But Spinosa reveals a forbidden truth that is more comforting than any Sunday school story. You cannot be cast out of a garden that you are a part of.

[00:25:49]The true religion is not a set of rules to follow so that you might one day belong to God. It is the quiet magnificent realization that you have never for a single second been separate from him. The end of fear and the death of hell. The most powerful tool of traditional religion is fear. We are told that because we were created with free will, we are responsible for our sins and a judgmental creator is watching us from a distance deciding our eternal fate. This creates a great gap between us and the divine. A gap filled with the threat of punishment. Spinosa's logic executes this fear with a single stroke. If God did not create you as a separate thing and if everything that happens is a result of divine necessity, then God cannot be a judge. How can the ocean be angry at the wave for being a wave? How can the sun be disappointed in the ray for shining? Spinosa argues that God is not a king who makes laws. God is the law. There is no hell waiting for you in the future because nothing can exist outside of the infinite. You cannot be lost or damned because there is nowhere for you to go that is not God. The only hell that exists is the internal torment of ignorance. The pain of living in fear, anger, and the belief that you are alone. When you accept the infinite, the doors of that imaginary prison swing wide open. True salvation is called blessedness. In the old stories, salvation is a prize you win after you die. It is a destination you reach if you have been a good servant.

[00:27:24]But for Spinosa, the infinite does not hand out prizes. He introduces the concept of blessedness. Blessedness is not the reward for virtue. It is virtue itself. It is a state of mind that you achieve right here, right now, while you are walking this earth. It is the deep, unshakable peace that comes when you stop fighting against reality. The struggle. Most people spend their lives in a state of passive bondage. They are happy when the world gives them what they want and they are miserable when the world takes it away. They are slaves to their hopes and their fears. The peace blessedness is the transition to an active life. It is the moment you realize that every event, the beautiful and the tragic, is a necessary expression of the infinite. When you understand that you are an essential part of the divine power, you stop begging for miracles. You stop asking for the world to change to suit your ego. Instead, you find a sacred joy in simply belonging to the whole. This is the true salvation. It is the freedom from the self and the entry into the all. The intellectual love of God. If God is not a person, how do we worship him? Spinosa offers the most beautiful form of devotion ever conceived. a more intellectualist day. The intellectual love of God. Traditional worship is emotional. It is about singing hymns, feeling moved and expressing gratitude to a father. Spinosa argues that this is still a form of self-love because we are loving God for what he can do for us.

[00:28:57]The intellectual love of God is different. It is the love of the truth.

[00:29:01]When you use your reason to understand the world, when you see the perfect geometry of a flower, the unyielding laws of gravity, or the complex beauty of human psychology, you are hearing the voice of the divine. To understand a law of nature is to see a piece of God's mind. This love is pure because it asks for nothing in return. You do not love the truth because it makes you rich or keeps you safe. You love it because it is perfect. In this love, the eye disappears. You are no longer a small fearful human. You are a mind that is perfectly reflecting the infinite logic of the universe. This is the highest communion possible. It is the moment where the part and the whole become aware of their unity. The forbidden truth of Spinosa is that you never began so you can never end. You were never created as a separate object so you can never be thrown away. You are an eternal expression of the singular substance.

[00:29:58]While the specific mask you wear, your name, your body, your memories is a temporary movement of the water, the essence of your being is as old as the stars and as eternal as the laws of logic. You are the infinite acting through the finite. You are God experiencing a human life. The peace of the infinite is the realization that you have always been home. The search for a father in the clouds is over. The fear of a judge in the shadows is gone. You are not a guest, not a servant, and not a product. You are the very breath of the divine reality flowing forth in a dance of necessity that has no beginning and no end. In the silence of this understanding, the fatal error is fixed.

[00:30:41]The twisted quotes are straightened. The ghosts of history are laid to rest.

[00:30:46]There is only the infinite, and you are a part of it. And in that belonging, there is a peace that surpasses all understanding.