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considered as Creative Logos. We may say in general that whoever is in need of manifestation thereby implies his own limitedness or imperfection. Development is from a lower stage to a higher-the higher is absent while the lower lasts. Thus the highest top which is to be reached in future is far off at the present moment. If this reasoning is correct we are forced to say that the Creative Logos if it is gradually unfolding itself shows thereby to be imperfect inherently, and this is impossible to be reconciled with the idea of true God who must be all-perfect, all- knowing and all-pervading by knowledge. The conception of God must be such as not to come into conflict with this.
Some systems of thought steer clear of these rocks by supposing that God is the Eneui, the Imagination or the consciousness pervading the whole Universe. The world is only a mode of our perceiving that Eternal Spirit which is all inclusive and stands far above the limited reason of man. The Sansar is the functional or volitional activity of the Spirit. The world is in it and it is in the world. This kind of theism is more consistent and helpful than the first. We can not raise the objections that we did against a personal God. It is sometimes asked from where came into existence the spirit but such a question is meaningless. It exists itself. We can not conceive of anything which comes from beyond existence that is nothing. Something coming out of nothing is a contradiction in terms. In fact to a thinking mind nothing is non
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