immortal spirits who are waiting to go to the hereafter in the Intermediate and Spirit Worlds is so fine and slight that there is no need to demonstrate it with proofs. Numberless saints and people of illumination getting in touch with them, and those who discern the secrets of the grave seeing them, and even a number of ordinary people communicating with them, and the mass of people forming relations with them in true dreams, have formed a mass of unanimous reports and have quite simply become part of the commonly accepted knowledge of mankind. However, because materialist thought has stupified everyone this age, it has been able to implant doubts in their minds concerning even the most evident matters. In order to remove these doubts, therefore, we shall set forth an introduction and four sources from the numerous sources springing from the heart’s intuition and the intellect’s insight.

#### Introduction

INTRODUCTION: As is proved in the Fourth Truth of the Tenth Word, an eternal, everlasting, and peerless beauty requires the eternity and permanence of mirror-bearing enraptured admirers. A faultless, eternal, and perfect art seeks the perpetuation of thoughtful heralds. A boundless mercy and beneficence require the continued ease and happiness of needy ones to thank it. And the foremost of those mirror-bearing enraptured admirers, those heralding thoughtful ones, those needy thankful ones is the human spirit, in which case, it will accompany that beauty, that perfection, that mercy on the endless road to eternity; it will be immortal.

As is also proved in the Tenth Word, in the Sixth Truth, not only the human spirit, but also the simplest levels of existence have not been created for extinction; they manifest a form of immortality. Even an insignificant flower, which has no spirit, manifests a sort of immortality in a thousand ways when it quits its external existence. For its form is made permanent in countless memories. And being perpetuated in its hundreds of seeds, the law of its formation continues. Since the flower’s law of formation, the model of its form, which resembles a tiny fragment of spirit, is made permanent by an All-Wise Preserver; and since it is preserved throughout turbulent transformations with perfect order in its tiny seeds and made permanent; you should understand the degree to which the human spirit, which has an extremely comprehensive and elevated nature, and has been clothed with external existence, and is a conscious, living, and luminous commanding law, most certainly manifests immortality and is tied and bound to eternity; if you do not understand this, how can you claim to be a conscious human being? Can it be asked of an All-Wise One of Glory, an Imperishable Preserver, Who includes and preserves in the