Creativism and Recreativism

Spinoza's divine Nature Naturing could be characterized as a Vitalist principle, thus aligning it with e. g. Bergson's Elan Vital.  But it does more than energize; it produces.  Thus, a more accurate characterization is Creativist, which reflects that it is a Pantheist variety of the deity of Genesis.  Now, among its Creations are Modes, who, at the culmination of the Ethics, discover the immanence of the Creativist principle.  But insofar as a Mode functions in the image of the Creativist principle, i. e. invents, manufactures, it itself Creates.  Thus, its fundamental behavioral principle can be characterized as Recreativist, signified by Spinoza's emphasis on Action over Passivity.  Now, Recreative behavior overcomes a Fear--the Fear provoked by the perhaps most influential superstition of the tradition--that Recreative behavior, e. g. invention, disobeys the deity of Eden and risks divine punishment.  So part of the bliss in the discovery that Recreative behavior is in the image of divine Creativity consists in defiance of that superstition, which is only a part of the more general superstition of the Theology of a transcendent punitive deity.