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Let us see. According to the chief apostle of this cult, the central truth around which the whole system revolves, is the principle that the only real thing which exists in the whole universe is mind or spirit. Everything objective is an illusion. Matter is nowhere really present as an actual substance. Material phenomena, so called, have no being save as projections of the mind. There is no world outside of consciousness. Everything we see is merely the product of our thought. External agencies are imaginary, not real. The earth, as it is known to you and me, dies and actually passes away, when we "shuffle off this mortal coil"; for it never has been, save as a conception mirrored in the mind. Hence, things as concrete are unthinkable. The properties of matter are non-existent. Weight and heat and cold, affinity, attraction and repulsion, length and breadth, bulk and size, quality and quantity, as attributes of a created sub-