Page 206 - Matter: The Other Name for Illusion

"Nothing exists." However, saying that matter is a totality of perceptions or an
image we perceive in our brains is not the same as saying that matter does not
exist. There is a physical universe, but we can never know its original. We
merely have experience of its copy, or illusion, in our minds.
That we merely deal with matter's illusion is very definite proof of the

existence of God. That is because since nothing that exists on the perceptual
level (just like an image) can possibly create itself, that shows there is a Creator-
Almighty God-Who brings it into being. Thus, the fact that the physical
universe is only an image is concrete proof of the existence and oneness of God.
For that reason, there is no contradiction between the fact that we have
experience of matter's image and existing things manifesting the existence of

The rising and setting of the sun are images that form in peoples' brains. A person watches
the sunset in his mind, and it is his soul that takes pleasure in it.

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