EINSTEIN:
GOD, RELIGION & SCIENCE
PART
4: SPINOZA’S GOD, EINSTEIN AND IMAGINATION
In the name of God Master,
of the Universe, Ruler of the earth
Greetings Brethren,
Peace
be unto you. To the Church and believing Christians everywhere and those that believe
in the Bible as the Supreme authority of God’s Laws. For the record and the
sign post many people that confess to be Christians are now during these trying
times looking to man, materialism and God knows what as additional authorities
on how to get to Heaven. Glory be to God our Father and to His Son our Savior
Christ Jesus blessed by the Holy Spirit.
As Viereck continues his discussion
with Einstein he relates Spinoza to Einstein’s concept of free-will. Meanwhile
Einstein makes the following comment. “I am fascinated by Spinoza’s pantheism,
but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the
first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate
things.”
Now Viereck raises the question
regarding Spinoza “How did he get his ideas?” Einstein responds “I’m enough of
an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”(Einstein His
Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson, p. 387).
How
Can Nature Conflict With Science?
As
Einstein leaned on Spinoza
the
often called noble and lovable
philosopher
the Jewish community
cried
out heretic.
Was
the world clearly structured
revealing
every event as a necessary
part
of a whole? What did his
masterpiece
“Ethics, Demonstrated
In
Geometrical Order” say?
Spinoza
with Einstein looking and
believing
first reveals his essence of
God.
Einstein taking detailed notes
sees
his hallmark in Part II as Spinoza,
Reflects
on the mind and body not
as
two separate substances but as
two
aspects of the one substance.
Two
plus one equals three.
I
wonder, we wonder where was/is
the
Spirit in this equation? As the soul
and
body decayed the Spirit lived
on.
There will also be a resurrection.
The
Ethics of Spinoza and his student
Einstein
now move to Parts III, IV
and
V. His moral theories now invade
Einstein’s
mind.
The
terms good and bad as to free
will
are just words humans use to
express
their desires. Salvation thus
comes
from the release of the enslavement,
To
these emotions. Then we can reason
with
the order of the universe and to love
God
in an intellectual sense. Is love only
seen
then among the learned gentry?
But
Spinoza and Einstein if we
may
ask-----Just how can the primitive
ways
of pantheism spell out the way
toward
interpreting the concept of God?
Is
God only seen in the study of nature?
Does
this clash with the whole idea of
monotheism?
Is God then much more
than
what the eyes can see?
Part
II: Imagination Realized
Now
not to discount nor deny are rule
out
Spinoza let us walk with Einstein in
the
intellectual world of factual and
theoretical
fantasy grasping philosophical
ammunition
as we go.
We
agree but the jury is out on Spinoza
that
realized dreams are boundless and
often
flirt with the move of the Spirit.
However
flirtations are realized as real
among
those that believe and are converted.
Meanwhile
the books had limited pages
and
so was the established doctrine for that
theory.
However the great thinkers never
ceased
to think and imagine things they,
Have
been told and forgotten only
for
a little while. So my time your time
ain’t
long. Nor is the decision to accept
Christ,
right from wrong.
There
is day and night, as we think we
imagine
of night at day but the sun will
never
clash with the rise of the moon. Nor
will
rain flow from the ground to the Heavens.
Cont.
Part 5: Einstein’s’ Credo: What I Believe
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