ABSTRACT
Spinoza's concept of God, this study has argued, is constructed from within a contradiction of the three kinds of knowledge. These contradictions and their meaning are concealed punctiliously by Spinoza, not only in the first kind of knowledge that he discusses in the TTP, but also in the second and third kinds of knowledge to which he dedicates the ethics. Spinoza's decision to write the Ethics in a Euclidean model which made the writing process no less exhausting and Sisyphean than the reading was not only an attempt at concealing contradictions in order to prevent misunderstandings or distortions of his philosophical position. The Euclidean nature of his grand project must also have been based on considerations internal to his system as it unfolds both in the second and in the third kind of knowledge. He revealed that it was neither possible to accept the Jewish concept of God, nor the Christian concept of God, which for him was totally immanent.
