VML-5/24/02

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The Advaitist theory of the soul reconciles both these positions. The

position of the Advaitist is that it is true that we cannot think of

the substance as separate from the qualities, we cannot think of

change and not-change at the same time; it would be impossible. But

the very thing which is the substance is the quality; substance and

quality are not two things. It is the unchangeable that is appearing

as the changeable. The unchangeable substance of the universe is not

something separate from it. The noumenon is not something different

from the phenomena, but it is the very noumenon which has become the

phenomena.