What is reality, and where does it come from? Reality is an idea and it comes from a Supreme Being – the Source - which is determined to display beauty and thereby also reflect generosity. It is absolutely crucial that one understands that reality belongs to the realm of ideas and is connected with beauty. Ideas are what the consciousness conceives. Human consciousness is a reflection of the consciousness of the Supreme Being. Consciousness is associated with an understanding of structure, not just the response of the physical senses to external stimuli. To be conscious is to delve into sufficient depth that accords one the view of the surface. I’m deliberately being elliptic. Some knowledge of geometry would help. Consciousness is the subjective form to objective beauty, which is associated with the human faculty of love of beauty, the other dimension being truth which is associated with the human faculty of intelligence. Thus, consciousness is expressible as a combination of intellig...