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How does God “create” the universe? Since in the beginning God alone is, there is no second substance that can be used for such “creation.” God is forced to use his own substance for the purpose. God is Infinite Mind, so he uses mental power—Imagination—working on mental substance—Thought—to produce the result which appears to us as the universe.
16.27.3.1Listen When Prospero says, in Shakespeare's play, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on,” he implies the existence of some greater Mind in which we are the dreams.
16.27.3.9Listen Every form of existence can be reduced to a form of consciousness. The final essence of all these consciousnesses is God.
16.27.3.16Listen The act of creative meditation which brings the universe into being is performed by the World-Mind. We, insofar as we experience the world, are participating in this act unconsciously. It is a thought-world and we are thought-beings.
16.27.3.19Listen In all these studies the principal concept should be returned to again and again: the entire universe, everything--objects and creatures--is in Mind. I hold all the objects of my experience in my consciousness but I myself am held, along with them, in an incredibly greater consciousness, the World-Mind's.
16.27.3.27Listen It is the presence of the World-Mind which makes things happen according to the World-Idea …
16.27.3.33,Listen Take the beginning and the end of the Greek alphabet and suppose that the first letter, Alpha, is the first faint stirrings of the universe. And take the last letter, Omega, to be the last vanishing trace of that universe. Imagine that Alpha is the reincarnation of the previous Omega, and you will have a key to what is really happening…
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