ABSTRACT
According to his tendency to find a political basis for a philosophical way of life, Baruch Spinoza had in fact required a sharp division between religion and philosophy in the Tractatus and substantiated this from the argument of his Ethica that only emotions have the power of directly affecting practical conduct and also religious practice, but that emotions could not have any influence on true philosophical knowledge. If, however, God is conceived as a cosmic basis of unity and if alone such a conception is verifiable through strict proofs –as Spinoza claims -then each other practice of religion is unreasonable and consequently there is no true religious attitude in these other practices as can be shown by pure demonstration. Moreover, a cosmic creed still holds Spinoza’s perception of Nature as it had already held that of the original religious behaviour.
