Survival and Freedom

In III, ix of the Ethics, Spinoza proposes that the principle of persistence in being is effective in the possession of adequate ideas, and of inadequate ideas, equally.  Thus, it is not inherently predisposed to the former.  But, if not, then, the principle does suffice to ground any special nisus towards Freedom, and, therefore, towards a Polity that promotes Freedom.  In contrast, Hobbes' Leviathan, as resolving the 'war of all against all', does follow from the premise of a survival instinct.  Now, one reconciliation of Freedom and Survival within Spinoza's system is the briefly entertained idea of the immortality of an incorporeal individual Mind, which, however, transcends any social organization, and, thus, moots his Political Treatise and his Theologico-Political Treatise, thereby reducing each to an exercise in frivolity uncharacteristic of their author.  So, as part of his Political Philosophy, either Freedom is implicitly no more than a means to persistence in being, or else, as an ultimate goal, it requires a more adequate principle, e. g. that every entity seeks to indefinitely grow, i. e. to indefinitely increase in strength.