The One (not Obama) has, by some slight of hand, or twinkle of the eye, become the manifold, the many, and our apprehension of it is normally held frustrate by our perceptive apparatus, dealing in space and time, and the other categories, as it does, but, say the spiritual masters of mankind, Kant was wrong, it’s not just an as if, because it can be experienced, though not talked about directly, being ineffable, but only experienced by those pure in heart and selfless, and further, the world is the play of the great mother as we might call her, and the penultimate cause of the creation of the world which is her play is to provide a field for liberation of those few who are ripe for it in each generation, but the final cause, you’d have to ask the mother herself.