if one seeks the conclusion of the whole in every part of it, it causes the surmising faculty to beset one and obscures the truth with its delusive notions amid uncertainties.

Premise

If you can comply with my conditions by restraining yourself from such things as the desire to oppose and taking the part of the opposer and considering yourself excused when ascribing baseless misgivings to some other person in order to justify yourself, and from seeing only faults like a customer, and making excuses like children, then listen to the following with an easy heart.

The First Aim

The First Aim

All the atoms in existence, while hesitant as regards essence, attributes and other aspects amid innumerable possibilities, take one way which results in wondrous benefits, thus testifying to the necessary existence of the Maker. This lights up from the subtle inner faculties of man — which are samples of the worlds of the unseen the lamp of belief and proclaims the Maker. Yes, just as each minute particle on its own proclaims the Maker; so too, all particles, by each preserving the balance of the general current in all its relationships at every stage of the ascending, intermingled compounds of the universe, which resemble concentric circles, and by producing different beneficial results with every relationship, recite and proclaim the Maker's wisdom and purpose, thus showing that proofs of the Maker far exceed atoms in number.

If you ask: Why doesn't everyone see this with their minds?

The Answer: Because of its perfect clarity. Indeed, some things are so intensely evident, they reach the degree of invisibility. Like the body of the sun.

Ponder over the lines of the universe, for they are

Missives to you from the Sublime Assembly.

That is, behold with the eye of wisdom the lines of successive events the Pre-Eternal Inscriber has written on the outspread pages of the wide world. Embrace the idea of truth, then the continuous