that the world and the Real each need the other, and other such statements that we have discussed elsewhere. He says that the entities of the world are fixed in nonexistence, independent of the Real, and that the existence of the Real has manifested in them. This is a kind of His inhering in those entities, yet the two are united: that which inheres is not distinct from its substrate. Thus he affirms a kind of inherence and a kind of union, contradicting himself in this just as the Christians contradict themselves regarding