Spinoza, Adequate Cause, Adequate Idea

For Spinoza, an Adequate Idea of a created entity entails knowledge of the proximate cause of the entity. Furthermore, an 'Adequate Cause', for him, is a cause through which its effect can be clearly and distinctly perceived. It thus follows that the object of an Adequate Idea of a created entity entails the Adequate Cause of the entity as well. Hence, the proper of object such an Adequate Idea is not so much an entity, or its cause, but the causality that connects them. Likewise, an Adequate Idea is not so much either the conclusion of a deductive procedure, or the premise from which it is deduced, but that deductive process itself.