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va > ™ | a 18 THE DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS 11. Barata said: “From time which man remembers not our priests have told us so, and so we know.” ; . 12. And Jesus said: “Enlightened Arabo, sre you a master mind and do not know that man knows naught by being told? 13, Man may believe what others say, but thus he never knows. If man would know, he must, himself, be what he knows. . 14. Do you remember, Arabo, when you were ape, or bird, or worn? - ° 15. Now, if you have no better proving of your plea than that the priests have told you so, you do not know; you simply guess. 16. Regard not, then, what any man has said; let us forget the fiesh and go with mind into the land of fieshless things; mind never does forget. 17. ‘And backward through the ages master minds can trace them- selves: and thus they know. 18. Time never was when man was not. 19. That which begins will have an end. If man was not, the time will come when he will not exist. 20. From Allah’s own record book we read: The Triune Allah breathed forth, and stood seven spirits before His face. The Hebrews call these seven spints Elohim, 21. And these are they who, in their boundless power, created every- thing that is, or was. ia 22. These spirits of the Triune Allah moved on the face of bound-~ fess space and seven others were and every other had its form of life. . 23. These forms of life were but the thought of Allah, clothed in. . the substance of their ether planes. 24. Men call these ether planes, the planes of protoplast, of earth, of plant, of beast, of man, of angel and cherubim. . . 25. These planes with all their teeming thoughts of Allah are never seen by eyes of man in flesh; they are composed of substance far too for fleshy eyes to see, and still they constitute the soul of things. . 26. And with the eyes of soul all creatures see these ether planes, and all the forins of life. ‘ : ' 27, Because all forms of life on every plane are ts of Allah, all creatures think, and every creature is possessed of will, and in its measure, has the power to choose. ~ 28. And in their native planes all creatures are supplied with nour- ishment from the ethers of their planes. i . And so it was with every living thing until the will became a sluggish will, and then the ethers of the protoplast, the earth, the plant, the beast, the man, began to vibrate very slow. . 30. The ethers became more dense, and all the creatures of these planes were clothed with coarser garbs of flesh, which men can see; and thus the coarser manifest, which men call physical, appeared. ae ._™ 31, And this is what is called the fall of man; but man fell not alone for protoplast, and earth, and plant and beast were all included in - the fall... . 32, The angels and the cherubim fell not; their will were never strong, and so they held the ethers of their planes in harmony with Aftah. % xt Rl hey AP A tg a eee - ~ ee te toe *,. ee vi. re . tae, = ‘ . Soa tae * * . - : ’