Commentary on Hegel

Hegel was an idealist but he was not a dualist. Although he believed that mind creates reality, he also believed that mind is a form of matter itself. He was a monist who thought that mind united with matter formed the one basic substance of the world. This belief formed the basis of his famous dictum: "What is real is rational; what is rational is real."
Hegel was right to maintain that mind creates reality, but he was wrong to contend that mind is only a form of matter. Hegel did not take into account that in order to write his philosophy based on the idea of the unity of mind and matter, he had to be aware of what he was writing. In other words, he could know nothing about his philosophy unless he was conscious of it. This means he had to separate his consciousness from that part of his consciousness that believed that mind is in unity with matter.
This process forms the basis of self-consciousness. In order for one to be self-conscious, one must also be conscious of the fact that one is conscious of something. But in order to be conscious of this self-consciousness one must also be conscious of the fact that this process could extend to infinity if the finite mind had the power to carry it that far.
Yet, even though we cannot carry this process to infinity, humans nevertheless possess the idea of infinity. With this in mind, then the question arises: If Hegel's dictum about the unity of mind and matter were true, then how could he ever become conscious of this fact since his mind had to have been locked into a unity with matter? In such a condition, he could only have been directly conscious of matter, like an animal.
Yet Hegel, like all intelligent humans, possessed the idea of infinity, which proves that his consciousness, like ours, continuously separated from itself in order to establish self-consciousness. But if Hegel's philosophy were true, then self-consciousness would be impossible and so would the idea of infinity.
Yet, despite the finiteness of our consciousness, we somehow possess the idea of infinity. This could only be true if our finite consciousness were somehow connected to infinity. But this means that infinity has to be a real entity. This real entity has to be an Infinite Consciousness since infinity is an idea in a conscious process that can extend to infinity. Beside this, if Infinity were not also Conscious, it would possess no power to give this idea to finite consciousness.
All of this put together means that if consciousness were really in unity with matter, then matter would also have to be infinite, but it is not. Matter is finite because it is limited by nothingness.

All of this means that God must exist, and that consciousness has to be quite different from matter. Reality has a dual nature; that is, mind makes matter real. That is the purpose of consciousness in the universe. The ultimate reality is an Infinite Reality.