Spinoza's immanent sovereignty : fantasy and the decision of interpretation

We want to propose a properly secular (non-transcendentalist or dualist) conception of immanence, on the basis of which we shall unfold the equally and similarly immanent relation between philosophy or truth and revelation or faith. For, above all, in Spinoza's scheme, where "truth is the standard both of itself and of the false," revelatory faith (false) must be as indispensable in the constitution of truth as the philosophical truth (EI, P43S; emphasis added). Implied in our position is also the thesis that the relation between, on the one hand, the Ethics and, on the other hand, the Theologico-Political and the Political Treatises is also one of immanence and continuity.