From this kind of knowledge arises pleasure accompanied by the idea of God as cause, that is (Def.

of the Emotions, vi.), the love of God; not in so far as we imagine him as present (V.xxix.), but in so far as we understand him to be eternal; this is what I call the intellectual love of God.
PROP.XXXIII.

The intellectual love of God, which arises from the third kind of knowledge, is eternal.
Proof .-- The third kind of knowledge is eternal (V.xxxi.

I.
Ax.

iii.); therefore (by the same Axiom) the love which arises therefrom is also necessarily eternal.