God and Fact

The peak moment of Spinoza's doctrine is an Intuition of God/Nature/Substance, constituted by an immediate awareness of oneself as as an active part of the creative force of reality.  Now, it can only be speculated about, but it seems likely that this a first-hand description of an experience, and not a projection of an abstract possibility.  If so, then Spinoza is reporting, as a fact, that God and Nature are one and the same, and, hence, that God has a corporeal aspect, and that it is immanent in all its Modes.  As such, it refutes all alternative concepts of deity, not as a counter-argument, but as a factual counter-example.  Nevertheless, this momentous discovery has generally been ignored by those to whom it is relevant.  For example, while Dualists Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel each offer a criticism of Spinoza, in each case the topic is a peripheral matter which is taken as sufficing to therefore dismiss Spinoza.  Later, a purported follower of Spinoza, Alexander, reduces Spinoza's doctrine to an Empiricist system culminating in a concept of deity in which all vitality is drained.  In contrast, Spinoza's insight likely inspires the two most influential Philosophers of the 19th-century, Marx and Nietzsche, though only implicitly, but because those two have generally been marginalized by subsequent academic Philosophy, the significance of Spinoza's discovery has remained generally ignored.  This neglect shows that not only has the alleged Love of Wisdom become nominal in Philosophers, they can no longer even be considered champions of intellectual integrity.