Pantheism, Church, State

In Spinoza's Pantheistic system, the medium of one's relation to God, Intuition, complements the medium of one's relation to others, Reason, each a type of Adequate Knowledge, or equivalently, Self-Determination.  In contrast, the Theology that, in his Political Philosophy, he contrasts with, and defends from, Reason, is constituted by ideas and practices that, in the Ethics, he classifies as Inadequate.  Thus, the possibility of a conflict, implied by the need to protect the exercise of Religion, is a consequence of a Theology based on Inadequate concepts.  Now, though Jefferson's exposure to Spinoza is known, it is unclear to what extent his separation of Church and State is derived from that of latter.  But, regardless, the concept of Religion that informs it is a contingent one, i. e. is not Pantheistic, and is constituted by Inadequate concepts, which, according to Spinoza, characterizes Heterocratic behavior.