Look at the inscriptions on these stones; [^8] in each are the inscriptions of all the palace, and the laws ordering all the town, and the programmes for organizing the whole country. This means that to make these inscriptions is as wonderful as making the whole country. In which case, all the inscriptions, all the works of art, are proclamations of that hidden one, and seals of his.

[^8]:This alludes to man, the fruit of the tree of creation, and to the fruit which bears its tree’s programme and index. For whatever the pen of power has written in the great book of the universe, it has written its summary in man’s nature. And whatever the pen of divine determining has written in a tree the size of a mountain, it has included in its fruit the size of a finger nail.

Since a letter cannot exist without showing the one who wrote it and an artistic inscription cannot exist without making known its inscriber, how is it that an inscriber who writes a huge book in a single letter and inscribes a thousand inscriptions in a single inscription, should not be known through his writing and through his inscribing?

Sixth Proof

SIXTH PROOF

Come, let us go out onto this broad plain. [^9] On it is a high mountain whose summit we shall climb to so that we can see all the surrounding country. We shall take with us a good pair of binoculars which will bring everything close, for strange things are happening in this strange land. Every hour things are taking place that we could not imagine. Look! These mountains, plains, and towns are suddenly changing. And how? In such a way that millions of things are being changed in regulated and orderly fashion one within the other. Truly wondrous transformations are being wrought, just as though millions of various cloths are being woven one within the other. Look! These flowery things which we know and are familiar with are disappearing and others have come in their place in orderly fashion; they resemble them in nature but are different in form. It is quite simply as though this plain and the mountains are each a page, and within them and on them hundreds of thousands of different books are being written. And they are being written faultlessly and without defect.

[^9]:This indicates the face of the earth in the spring and summer. For the groups of hundreds of thousands of different creatures are created one within the other and written there. They are changed without fault or error and with perfect order. Thousands of tables of the Most Merciful One are laid out, then removed and replaced by fresh ones. All the trees as though bear trays, all the gardens are like cauldrons.

It is impossible a hundred times over that these matters could have come about on their own. Yes, for these works which are skilfully and carefully fashioned to an infinite degree to have occurred on their own is impossible