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aggregate of individual compound objects, it is composed of 

 various objects, different one from the other in quality, quantity 

 and form, changing one from the other and one after the other. 

 Thus, to the sensual perception of man, the universe is nothing 

 else but an aggregate of various and varying objects by a non- 

 absolute existence. 



The universe, therefore, cannot be a self-standing being by 

 itself, for, were it a self-standing being by itself, no change 

 and no manifestation can exist in the universe, because that 

 cause, which is inherent in it implying it to be one moment in a 

 certain state and form, must compel it to remain in such a state 

 and form in all eternity. The universe cannot be also a non- 

 absolute being, not self-standing, for, were it a non-absolute 

 being, that there was once a time and space in which the 

 universe did not exist and there will be again such a time and 

 space in which it will be turned into naught, then, the universe 

 was never in existence and there was never any creator to create 

 it, because a creator of such an universe cannot be a created 

 thing, but its existence must be inherent in himself and standing 

 by itself in a perfect absoluteness. Now if he was one moment 

 without the creation of the universe, in that moment, conse 

 quently, he was not a creator, the creation in that moment was 

 not an absoluteness in him, thus, there would never have been 

 a creator to the universe. The universe, therefore, must be an 

 absolute being without any beginning an d without end, but its 

 existence is not dependent upon itself, but upon another absolute 

 being, whose existence is dependent upon himself, in a perfect 

 absoluteness, in which no change and no activity can be think 

 able. The universe as a whole, which cannot be otherwise in 

 existence than in an Absolute Intellectuality, must be as a unit 

 in him, it cannot be made by any other instruments or material 

 besides it, but as an emanation of the all-embracing Absolute 

 Mind, which is the Creator, the Emanator and Sustainor of it. 

 So that if the Intellectuality should cease existing for one 

 second, the universe should not be in existence. 



The intellectuality is an intellectual image of the universe 

 as a whole, an intellectual being by itself, from which the uni- 



