 The eternal idea of a bodily essence is not only a part of God’s intellect (as all ideas are), it is also an eternal “part” of the relevant human mind, a “part” that “remains” (E5p23) even after the body’s demise, when there are no more ideas of bodily affections to be “felt”. This then is all there is also to human immortality, in Spinoza’s view: the eternal existence of the essences of our bodies, and of ideas of those bodies. As Nadler emphasizes (2002), we are far here from any traditional doctrine of personal immortality: nothing that does not belong to us essentially, and nothing that depends on sense experience, such as memories, persists beyond death.