I'm a philosophy major and I just took two classes I'm trying to understanding together: one on Modern Philosophy and one on Poststructuralism. In MP, we read a piece of Spinoza's Ethics, and basically glossed over the Geometrical Method. I don't know much about the history of geometry, but I know the Geometrical Method tries to take axiomatic claims and deduce from them necessary truths, which in turn imply necessarily true propositional content, etc. My question:

is this a purely analytical mode of thought, or is there still a tradition of religious symbolism present in Spinoza's thought here? (It's a historical question because what I'm really interested in is Euclidean mysticism, its relationship to 'sacred symbols,' and the work that underlies Spinoza's content if the notion of a 'sacred' or 'geomantic' symbol is still present in his method and form.)

If the religious content is present, can we read Spinoza as writing a kind of spellbook with propositional implications resulting? Or..?