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|Conclusion: An astonishing assault.|[230](/the-flashes/the-twenty-second-flash/9173/30/223/231#2302)|
|THE TWENTY-THIRD FLASH: On Nature|[232](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2322)|
|Introduction: Three phrases, representing three ways, used by believers about the existence of things without realizing their implications:|[233](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2332)|
|The First Way: The formation of things through the coming together of causes in the universe.|[234](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2342)|
|First Impossibility: The coming together by chance of the elements of living beings in perfect measure and balance.|[234](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2342)|
|Second Impossibility: If a fly, for example, is attributed to causes, it necessitates that many of the elements and causes in the universe intervene physically in its being.|[235](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2352)|
|Third Impossibility: “If a being has unity, it can only have issued from one hand,” particularly if it manifests life, together with perfect order and balance.|[236](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2362)|
|The Second Way: “It forms itself.”|[236](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2362)|
|First Impossibility: The body resembles a finely ordered machine; if its particles are not working in accordance with the divine law, each would have to possess absolute attributes.|[236](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2362)|
|Second Impossibility: The particles of a living body stand together in perfect balance and order; if they are not dependent on the master architect of the universe, each would have to be both dominant over all the others and subordinate to them.|[237](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2372)|
|Third Impossibility: If your being is not ‘written’ by the pen of the All-Powerful One, but ‘printed’ by nature and causes, there would have to be printing-blocks in nature to the number of cells in your body|[238](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2382)|
|The Third Way: “Nature necessitates it and makes it.”|[238](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2382)|
|First Impossibility: If animate creatures are not ascribed directly to the manifestation of the Pre-Eternal Sun, each has to be a god with infinite attributes.|[239](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2392)|
|Second Impossibility: If attributed to nature, there would have to present in each bit of soil the means by which innumerable flowers and fruits could grow and be formed.|[239](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2392)|
|Third Impossibility: Two comparisons:|[242](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2422)|
|The First: A wild savage enters a palace adorned with all the fruits of civilization.|[242](/the-flashes/the-twenty-third-flash/9178/30/232/253#2422)|