In the Ethics (1677), Baruch Spinoza argued that only one infinite substance can exist, with infinitely many attributes, of which we know thought and extension. He called it God or Nature. All things follow from its nature by necessity. Condemned as an atheist in his time, he was later hailed by Novalis as “God-intoxicated”.
Deus sive Natura
Spinoza’s phrase “God or Nature”, expressing that God is the one substance of which all things are modes.
Also: God or Nature