HE DIVINE
MANIFESTATIONS
59: MAN'S KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
60: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SPIRIT (1)
61: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SPIRIT (2)
62: PERFECTIONS ARE WITHOUT LIMIT
63: THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN THE OTHER WORLD
64: THE STATE OF MAN AND HIS PROGRESS AFTER DEATH
65: EXPLANATION OF A VERSE IN THE KITAB-I-AQDAS
66: THE EXISTENCE OF THE RATIONAL SOUL AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY
THE IMMORTALITY OF CHILDREN
67: ETERNAL LIFE AND ENTRANCE INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD
68: FATE
69: THE INFLUENCE OF THE STARS
70: FREE WILL
71: VISIONS AND COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS
72: HEALING BY SPIRITUAL MEANS
73: HEALING BY MATERIAL MEANS
Part Five: MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS
74: THE NONEXISTENCE OF EVIL
75: TWO KINDS OF TORMENT
76: THE JUSTICE AND MERCY OF GOD
77: THE RIGHT METHOD OF TREATING CRIMINALS
78: STRIKES
79: THE REALITY OF THE EXTERIOR WORLD
80: REAL PREEXISTENCE
81: REINCARNATION
82: PANTHEISM
83: THE FOUR METHODS OF ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE
84: THE NECESSITY OF FOLLOWING THE TEACHINGS OF THE DIVINE
MANIFESTATIONS

PART ONE: ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE PROPHETS IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY

1: NATURE IS GOVERNED BY ONE UNIVERSAL LAW

Nature is that condition, that reality, which in appearance consists in
life and death, or, in other words, in the composition and decomposition
of all things.

This Nature is subjected to an absolute organization, to determined laws,
to a complete order and a finished design, from which it will never
depart--to such a degree, indeed, that if you look carefully and with keen
sight, from the smallest invisible atom up to such large bodies of the
world of existence as the globe of the sun or the other great stars and
luminous spheres, whether you regard their arrangement, their composition,
their form or their movement, you will find that all are in the highest
degree of organization and are under one law from which they will never
depart.

But when you look at Nature itself, you see that it has no intelligence,
no will. For instance, the nature of fire is to burn; it burns without
will or intelligence. The nature of water is fluidity; it flows without
will or intelligence. The nature of the sun is radiance; it shines without
will or intelligence. The nature of vapor is to ascend; it ascends without
will or intelligence. Thus it is clear that the natural movements of all
things are compelled; there are no vo