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Neo-Platonism In the Middle Age, Averrae: was a famous pantheist Spinoza, the prince of philosophers, was the father of the pantheism of modern Europe. The German philosophers like Hegel, Schopenhauer etc are, in a sense, pantheists All the things of the universe, Soul, Matter etc., are either manifestations or modifications of the only existent Being, God,
there is nothing but God, this is the first principle of the pantheistic philosophy. All the varied phenomena are really and substantially one, all of them are eustent in and through the existence of God, all of them are in-formed by the life of GodGod is and there is nothing else. To consider the world as a separate reality is a mistake.
From very ancient times, India has its Advänta philosophy which denies the reality and the multiplicity of the things of the universe and which proclaims,
"Brahman is the only Reality,--the Universe, an Illusion."
The doctrine of Maya is closely related to the doctrine of the non-dual Brahman. According to the Advaita philosophy, Brahman is the homogeneous and the only existent Beingait is existence itself Beside it, all
