Why is there something instead of nothing?

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3. The nature of reality

There’s an old mystical book called “The Kybalion”, written by adherents of the ancient mystic Hermes Trimegistus, which seeks to explain the nature of things. While it admits that no language can express the ultimate reality, it posits that our feelings during a meditative state can acquire some hints of ultimate reality. It accepts the existence of a universal intelligence which experiences itself through the life-experiences of its own sentient creations.