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From a logical point of view it is absolutely meaningless to ask the question, “What is God?” Everything can be led upward to the highest, but to the highest *no* predicate can be added, for the answer would have to be: God is ..., and God would then have to be described in terms of something higher. So the question itself would involve the strangest contradiction possible.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"Krishna and Buddha: Ancient Clairvoyance's Dual Conclusion","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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