With me i had a letter from Germany. A Catholic friend of mine had made some points in it, and i wanted to give her an apt reply from the viewpoint of Hinduism. The first principle of Hinduism, she had written, is monistic pantheism, whereas Jewish-Christian thinking considers that God and Creation are two entities. "This difference appears to me to be absolute. Whether besides the existence of God, there is another existence, created by Him, but a real existence of a different sort, or whether everything beside the deity is only illusion." It could not be said that monistic pantheism and the Christian viewpoint are (both) correct.