Will, Objectivity, Eternity

In some passages, Spinoza seems to suggest that the telos of the Ethics is the attainment of an intuition of God, but in others, that attainment is presented as implicated in the cultivation of adequate ideas, i. e. as a necessary means to the achievement of liberation from the influence of the Emotions. In that context, an adequate idea is analyzed as knowledge from a God's-eye view, that Spinoza characterizes as 'the aspect of eternity', a perspective that seems equivalent to the more contemporary classification 'objective', e. g. his analysis of the feeling of pleasure as an increase in strength. Now, as has been previously discussed here, the attainment of 'objectivity' entails a process of Externalization, e. g. an 'objective' perspective on oneself is one from the 'outside', a process that is effected by Will. Furthermore, self-objectification entails an hypostasization of the processes that are under observation, thereby eternalizing them. In contrast, Spinoza offers no explanation of what he means by 'eternity', especially as it pertains to a God which is presumably an indefinitely ongoing dynamic force.