Will, God, Artifice

In Spinoza's system, God and Nature are identical, and Modes are part of God/Nature. Thus, in tha system, there are no significant ontological differences between 'divine', 'natural', and 'man-made' processes. Accordingly, the conventional privileging of 'natural' vs. 'artificial', expresses an arbitrary God-Nature-Humanity hierarchy as much as does the characterization of building a fire as 'stealing from the Gods'. Likewise, that Ethics qua Idionomic process of self-cultivation, e. g. qua the enhancement of Will here, is a program of human artifice, is an argument against it only on the basis of an arbitrary theological orientation.