The whole is the sum of its parts. But the whole is the illusion as it can never be seen. A baseball team such as the New York Yankees is made up of players. You can see the players individually and you may see the players altogether assembled for a picture, but the New York Yankees doesn't exist as a physical body-it is an illusion. The New York Yankees is not a physical thing, it is an abstract idea of players gathered together to form a baseball team. A family is made up of members-grand parents, parents, children, cousins, etc, etc.. The individual members can be seen, you can talk to them, interact with them, but the family itself is an illusion. The family is a collection or sum of its parts. "Family" is just a name for the collective members-it is a thought manifested into physical reality. The members are real, but the family is not. You cannot see the one called "family," you can only imagine it.
God (the Creator) is made up of its members. Its individualized peaces. In our awareness, it is you and I, our planet, and all things in and out of this universe. God does not exist as an anthropomorphic being. God is the illusion and it is his parts which are real. One cannot see God, but one can see any number of his parts. We are God manifested in individualized pieces. When you look at any of the pieces you are seeing God.
So when we are talking of God, we are talking about an abstract collection of his parts. We are talking about you. You are God and you are a piece of God. You have all the attributes and characteristics of the one you imagine as God. God does not exist as
