Kleps's doctrine is solipsist rather than theist and he did not soften it: what is ultimate is the dreaming consciousness, the world is its content, and enlightenment is the recognition of that fact rather than a reward for virtue. The Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church still states it in those terms — enlightenment as the realisation that life is a dream. This is a genuine position in Indian philosophy and in Western idealism and Kleps had read both. It is also, conveniently, unfalsifiable and unprosecutable, and Judge Gesell said as much in 1968 when he found no belief in a supreme being. Scholars of American religion have generally treated the doctrine as sincerely held and the packaging as a defence, which is the opposite of the court's reading.