Existence and non-existence (chap. NR)

"[2] What is this foolish talk about existence and non-existence? There is only 1 existence. There is absolutely nowhere in the whole endless space of creation a non-existence. Although the temporarily, material existence is only a test-existence in order to attain to the true existence that can never more be destroyed, it is nevertheless also in itself a complete spiritual existence, for it is impossible that another real and true existence should exist in the whole extended sphere of infinity.
[3] Look friend, with all your Greek worldly wisdom, there is the Lord, sitting in our midst. He alone is the true and eternal true existence in Himself. We are only, by His will, His realized ideas and thoughts of light, from the smallest to the greatest.
[4] Since His ideas and thoughts of light are the fruit of His eternal endless love – which is His Being and Life – and which are just like Himself, imperishable and eternally indestructible, so is also our existence forever completely indestructible in the real spiritual life.
[5] And since His endless wisdom and His love did not only create the visible, movable images for Himself out of His ideas and thoughts – if this can be said in a human manner – as it were for His perishable and in a certain way temporary pleasure, but have to exist eternally as independent free beings who are completely like Him – since they existed out of Him – His ideas and thoughts cannot be compared with the fantasy of men, but they are true realities, as He Himself is the only One, and forever only true reality.

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