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EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE TRUTH?

is "I", the person who uses his brain? Who is it that realises
the act of knowing? As Saint Francis of Assisi said: "What we
search for is the one that sees." 7

Now, think of this: The book in your hand, the room you are
in, in brief, all the images in front of you are seen inside your
brain. Is it the atoms that see these images? Blind, deaf, uncon-
scious atoms? Why did some atoms acquire this quality whereas
some did not? Do our acts of thinking, comprehending, remem-
bering, being delighted, being unhappy, and everything else
consist of the electrochemical reactions between these atoms?
When we ponder these questions, we see that there is no
sense in looking for will in atoms. It is clear that the being who
sees, hears, and feels is a supra-material being. This being is
"alive" and it is neither matter, nor an image of matter. This being
associates with the perceptions in front of it by using the image
of the body.
This being is the "soul".
It is the soul that sees, hears, feels, perceives and interprets
the copies in the brain of the matter existing on the outside. The
intelligent beings that write and read these lines are not each a
heap of atoms and molecules – and the chemical reactions be-
tween them – but a "soul".

The Real Absolute Being

All these facts bring us face to face with a very significant ques-
tion. Since we can never know anything about the original of the
material world and since we only have direct experience of replica
images in our brains, then what is the source of these images?

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