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Only God is beyond the universe. For if the word universe means anything, it excludes the possibility of another universe, let alone of other universes. If universes are in interaction with one another, they form only one universe. If they are not in interaction, they are mutually unknowable. There is indeed...profundity in Newman's remark that only one thought is greater than the Universe, the thought of its Maker.