  It is important to note in all of this that Maimonides emphasizes the importance of sharing with even average people the truth of God’s absolute unity and (relatedly) the truth of God’s incorporeality. This means, of course, that in spite of his emphasis on the need to shield the golden apple of truth from the masses much of the time, Maimonides advocates overtly teaching every person that the anthropomorphic images in the Bible are literally false. In other words, in spite of Maimonides’ emphasis on (a) the importance of addressing the average person by way of imagination (not intellect), (b) the role of the Bible’s external layer (the “silver filgree”) as precisely aimed at the imagination, and (c) the repeated appearance in the Bible’s external layer of imaginative anthropomorphic images, Maimonides nonetheless thinks it is important to tell people that God has no body.