Its nourishment was the blood of the mother now it finds delicious food to enjoy. Having come into its new conditions, it finds that it has passed from darkness into a sphere of radiance from gloomy and restricted surroundings it has been transferred to a spacious and delightful environment. It is reluctant to leave its home, but nature forces it into this world. It cries as if not wishing to be separated from its narrow abode and imagining that life is restricted to that limited space. At first the infant finds it very difficult to reconcile itself to its new existence. These human conditions may be likened to the matrix of the mother from which a child is to be born into the spacious outer world. There is no annihilation, no destruction therefore, the human spirit is immortal because it is not transferred from one body into another body. All these can be conceived at the same moment in the human spirit, and not one of them needs to be destroyed or broken in order that the spirit of man may be transferred to another. Simultaneously also you can conceive a hexagonal form. As an evidence of this, at the present moment in the human spirit you have the shape of a square and the figure of a triangle. It is not possible to break or destroy one form so that it may transfer itself into another. But the human spirit in itself contains all these forms, shapes and figures. ![]() When the physical man is dead, he will return to dust and this transference is equivalent to nonexistence. Mortality, therefore, means transference from one form to another - that is, transference from the human kingdom to the kingdom of the mineral. Therefore, the form of the physical body of man must be destroyed and abandoned before it can assume or take unto itself another. These various forms or shapes cannot be manifest at the same instant in one material object. Similarly, it cannot be spherical and hexagonal at the same time. While it is triangular, it cannot be square and while it is square, it is not triangular. For example, we say that a material body is eithersquare or spherical, triangular or hexagonal. The spirit of man, however, can manifest itself in all forms at the same time. The first life, which pertaineth to the elemental body, will come to an end, as hath been revealed by God: "Every soul shall taste of death." But the second life, which ariseth from the knowledge of God, knoweth no death, as hath been revealed aforetime: "Him will We surely quicken to a blessed life." This is that blessed and everlasting life that perisheth not: whosoever is quickened thereby shall never die, but will endure as long as His Lord and Creator will endure. ![]() That life, however, which is mentioned in the Books of the Prophets and the Chosen Ones of God is the life of knowledge that is to say, the servant's recognition of the sign of the splendours wherewith He Who is the Source of all splendour hath Himself invested him, and his certitude of attaining unto the presence of God through the Manifestations of His Cause. This life cometh to an end with physical death, which is a God-ordained and inescapable reality. ![]() ![]() The first pertaineth to the appearance of man in an elemental body, and is as manifest to thine eminence and to others as the midday sun. Know then that "life" hath a twofold meaning.
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