The creator and the created.

If someone told you that God and Nature are one and the same, that there is no God seperate from the universe sitting in some hyperspace (Heaven?),  yet that there does seem to be a greater force that can be discerned in nature a pattern if you will.. then that person is a Pantheist. The word Pantheism, which resmbles advaita and buddhism closely was coined by John Tolland in 1705 to refer to Spinoza's philosophy. Yes its true that Spinoza is the guy who spoke of this idea to the West. Himself considered to be a great rationlist like Descartes himself, Spinoza had a lasting impression on Goethe.

If someone talked to you about fire and how it seems to change and continues to remain the same you would probably think of Zarathustra and the Parsi faith. But Heraclitus, the of sixth century BC, was the one who popularized the concept to the Western world.