intellectual love of god, n.Definitions

The Intellectual love of God (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no beginning, yet it has every perfection of a love that had just been born.

The Intellectual love of God (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be taken away by anything in nature, since whatever could destroy it would make the true false.

The Intellectual love of God (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Spinoza named amor intellectualis dei is mere clatter: what is amor, what is deus, when not a drop of blood is in them?

The Intellectual love of God (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠joy at understanding, with God as its cause — love not of a God imagined present but of a God understood as eternal.

The Intellectual love of God (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a solitary Spinoza or Freud feels for the God of the message has nothing to do with the believers' God — and it never stopped anyone building Versailles.