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CHAPTER 1 ee te THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN’ “Time never was, when man was not.” If life of man at any time began, a time would come when it would end. “The thoughts of Allah cannot be circumscribed. No finite mind can comprehend things infin- ite.” AJ] finite things are subject unto change. Ali finite things will cease to be because there was a time when they were not.” The bodies and the souls of men are finite things,.and they will change, yea, from the finite point of view the time avill come when they will be “But man himself is not the body, nor the soul; he is a spirit and of Allah.” Creative Fate gave to man, to spirit-man, a soul function on the plane of soul; gave him a body of fiesh, i function on the plane of things made manifest. “Why did Creative Fat give to spirit-man a soul that he might function on the p f Why did Creative Fate give to soul a body of flesh that be mii i on the plane of things that are made manifest? Hear, now, ye cherubim, - _«-- ye Seraphim, ye angels and ye men! . ; “Hear, now, oh protoplast and earth and plant and beast! he Hear, now, ye creeping things of earth, ye fish that swim, ye birds t v 4 h ww” now, ye winds that blow, ye thunders and ye lightnings . »» the y. ' “Hear, now, ye spirits of the fire, of water, earth and air, : “Hear, now, oh everything that is. or was, or evermore will be, for ! susdom speaks from out the highest plane of spirit Hfe: f a “Man is a thought of Allah; all things of Allah are infinite; they # are not measured up by time, for the things that are concerned with time, begin and end. , “The thoughts of Allah, are the everlasting of the past unto the never ending days to come. And so is man, the spirit-man. . “But man like every other thought of Allah, was but a seed, » seed that held within itself the potencies of Allah, just as the seed of any plant of earth holds deep within itself the attributes of every part of, that especial plant. . . “So spirit-man as seed of Allah held deep within himself the attributes of every part of Allah. “Now, seeds are perfect, yea, as perfect as the source from which they come; but they are not unfolded into life made manifest. The child is as perfect as the mother is. So man, the seed must be deeply Planted in a soil that he might grow, unfold, as does the bud unfold to show the flower. The human seed that came forth from the heart of Allah was full ordained to be the Lord of the plane of soul, and of the plane of things made manifest. So Allah, the husbandman of everything that is, threw forth this human seed into the soil of soul; it grew apace, and man became a living soul, and he became the Lord of all the kingdom ___ of the soul. Hark, now, let every creature hear, the plane of the soul is but the ether of the spirit plane vibrating not so fast, and in the slower rhythm of this plane the essence of life are manifest; the perfumes and the odors, the true sensations and the all of love manifest. > =, |e > _ Red