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God Speaks
''God Speaks, The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose'' (ISBN 978-0-915828-02-9) is the principal book by Meher Baba, and the most significant religious text used by his followers. It covers Meher Baba's view of the process of Creation and its purpose and has been in print continuously since 1955.〔''Time Magazine'', July 1, 1966, Allan Cohen, Ph.D., Robert Dreyfuss and Frederick Chapman — "In his most important book God Speaks, (published 1955, by Dodd, Mead) Meher Baba outlines the differences between real consciousness and its multicolored shadows..."〕
==Overview==
''God Speaks'' is Meher Baba's most significant published book. Kenneth Lux, Ph.D. writes: "''God Speaks'' is Meher Baba's major book and it is famously difficult. But not only is it Baba's major book, it is his only book. All other books by Meher Baba, such as the ''Discourses'' and ''Listen Humanity'', are not written as books, as ''God Speaks'' is, but are collections of essays and messages."〔Kenneth Lux. ''The Love Street Lamppost'', July/October 2005〕
While Meher Baba does not emphasize intellect alone as a path to perfection, in ''God Speaks'' Meher Baba goes deeper into the subject of metaphysics than most other Indian masters. In his book ''Mastery of Consciousness'', Allan Y. Cohen, Ph.D. writes that Meher Baba's "explanations of the creation, purpose, and evolution of the universe may be the most explicit ever written."〔''Mastery of Consciousness'', Allan Y. Cohen, Ph.D., Harper & Row, New York, 1977, p. 21〕 In a review of ''God Speaks'', oriental scholar Walter Evans-Wentz, the original English translator of The Tibetan book of the dead, wrote: "No other Teacher in our own time or in any known past time has so minutely analyzed consciousness as Meher Baba has in ''God Speaks''."〔Evans-Wentz, Walter, ''The Uniqueness and Paramount Value of God Speaks'', 1955 Book review〕
''God Speaks'' takes a strictly nondualist approach in explaining the universe and its purpose, carefully clarifying and syncretising terms as it takes the reader through the spiritual journey of the ''atma'' (soul) through its imagined evolution, reincarnation, and involution, to its goal, its origin, of ''Paramatma'' (Over-soul). The journey winds up being one from God-unconscious ("Beyond Beyond State of God") to God-conscious ("Beyond State of God"). Cohen summarizes, "In elaborate detail he explains the universe is an arena where infinite existence, identifying with the apparently limited soul, becomes more and more conscious of its oneness with itself as the Over-Soul."〔''Mastery of Consciousness'', Allan Y. Cohen, Ph.D., Harper & Row, New York, 1977, p. 21〕
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