I don’t have my library handy, but the following link might be useful for seeing that Kabbalistic/Spinoza tie that I think is relevant to Peirce.
https://books.google.com/books?id=gZEgOxy_hXoC&lpg=PA186&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q&f=false <https://books.google.com/books?id=gZEgOxy_hXoC&lpg=PA186&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q&f=false> Here I’m less interested in Peirce’s religion than how his particular cosmology adopts certain neoplatonic tropes. I should add so far as I know there is zero evidence Peirce knew of Kabbalism. Interestingly while I mentioned Moshe Idel he has used Peirce to try and understand elements of Kabbalism. I’ve not really studied the history of that since college so I’m not a good source on that. But Idel thinking that Peirce’s synechism as a way of thinking of Kabbalism is a pretty good sign there are at least structural affinities between the two movements. (I’d imagine these arise indirectly via how Peirce transforms Spinoza) I think list member Gary Fuhrman at one time wrote on these topics. I don’t know if he’s still active on the list.
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