How Do God’s Ideas and Perceiving Faculties Create World?

Regarding your metaphor of the screen and images of the movie that appear on it, is the nature of the illusion determined from our localised perspective or by the screen? Rupert says: ‘I would suggest that our perceiving faculties determine the way in which reality appears. What it is that is appearing to us is beyond the control of a finite mind. That, I would say, is God’s mind, or the activity of infinite consciousness. The universe is God’s idea, but it only looks like a material universe because we view it through the lens of our perceiving faculties. What we view as the universe is an interaction of God’s ideas, the activity of infinite consciousness, and the perceiving mind through which it is perceived. Each of us are like localised perspectives in God’s mind through whose perceiving faculties God perceives itself as the universe.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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