THE FIRST POINT is the strange mystery inferred by the rule 'To think first is to act afterwards; to act first, is to think afterwards.' It is like this: humankind's ability to develop sciences by discovering through the light of speculative thought the sequences and configurations of causes, and by analysing and reducing to elementary sub- stances the compounds that are like the seeds of human attainments; and in respect of its ability to produce art, which it does through copying nature and employing the laws in force in the things they call compound wholes, the human being's faulty view, thronging anxieties, and inability to arouse humanity, all show the need for a prophet-guide, so that the balance of the perfect order in the world may be preserved.

THE SECOND are the human potentialities, which are infinite; human beings' hopes and desires, which are unrestricted; their thoughts and ideas, which are boundless; and their appetitive powers and power of anger, which are unlimited.

Indication

Even if a person were to be given a lifetime of millions of years and complete enjoyment of all worldly pleasures in every respect, he would still sigh "if only ..." due to the infinity within his innate disposition. It is as though his discontentment suggests and hints that humankind is destined for eternity and is created for everlasting happiness so that the unrestricted innate human capabilities may emerge in fact in infinite time in an unlimited, expansive world.

Note

The absence of futility and the realities of things intimate that the human perfections cannot be contained in this narrow, restricted, and lowly world, which is not free of the conflict and envy arising from the numerous factors hindering every single pleasure. There must be a wide world where there are no obstructions and disorder so that human beings may truly burgeon and blossom, and setting their own circumstances and attainments in order, conform to the order in the world.