Intuition and Creativity

In the context of the Ethics, the Intuition of God might seem to be a rarified mystical experience.  But in a different context, the general significance of the moment may be easier to recognize.  From the beginning of recorded history, creativity has been an attribute of humans.  But in almost the same span, human creativity has been interpreted as an object of divine wrath, with epochal consequences. Less dramatically, but similarly, the source of that creativity, Techne, is relegated by Aristotle to inferior, non-divine status.  Thus, when Spinoza's Intuition of God is combined with familiar creative experience, it not only enriches the experience, and even explains Kant's concept of Genius, but repudiates any cultural tradition in which human creativity is conceived as disobedience, e. g. the entire drama of Fall and Salvation that has had a powerful influence on some societies for centuries.  Likewise, the relegation of Techne, common to Philosophy since Aristotle, is nullified.