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friend will disappear. It is only God Who is Living and Eternal. So how, in that
case, can anyone be attached to anything, the original of which he can never
establish contact with, and which only exists in his mind? It must not be
forgotten that it is only God Whom a person must love and submit to.

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friends to be as real and permanent as he is. How can they be any different?"
Such statements show that these people have not understood what we
have been saying about the true nature of matter, or else have not thought
deeply enough about it. People who say such things are not "real and
permanent" as they believe themselves to be, so they cannot expect their loved
ones to be real and permanent. When one considers the matter, a person will
understand that his own body is merely an image that God shows to his soul.
When some people feel their bodies, feel pain when they cut their fingers,
or meet some of their bodies' physical needs, this may cause them to forget that
their bodies are copy images. However, a person's own body is actually a
perception, just like everything else, and nobody can ever know the original of
the physical existence of his body. For example, the pain when one cuts one's
finger is again a perception. So is the feeling of fullness one enjoys after eating
something. Artificial signals from outside the human body can also produce
the same feelings. However, nobody can ever know how the original of his
own body is. It is the soul that God has given to man that feels pains or
understands the words on a page, for that reason, the individual himself is also
a manifestation of God. These people are not real and permanent, as they
would believe.
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and is used to show this subject, in their own opinions, as opposed to science
and intended to negate it. However, it is clearly false and invalid.
God shows us the images we experience within ourselves as united by a
network of cause and effect relationships, all linked together by laws. The
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