Day. For example, the day, year, lifetime of man, and revolution of God’s great clock known as the earth resemble the dials of a weekly clock of ours that tell the seconds, minutes, hours and days; each the forerunner of the following, they give news of one another; they turn and function. Just as they show morning after night and spring after winter, so they intimate that after death the morning of the resurrection will appear from that instrument, that vast clock.

There are many varieties of resurrection that a person experiences during his lifetime. He sees the signs of the resurrection by dying in a sort of way every night and being reborn every morning; it is agreed that he undergoes what resembles a resurrection every five or six years by changing all the particles in his body; and he even undergoes a gradual resurrection twice a year. Also, every spring he witnesses more than three hundred thousand sorts of resurrection and rising to life in the animal and plant kingdoms.

So many signs and indications and marks of resurrection most certainly point to the great resurrection of the dead as though they were droplets of it. An indication of a personal resurrection of the human being within the general resurrection may be the fact that an All-Wise Maker causes a sort of resurrection in the animal and plant worlds, that is, He raises to life exactly the same plant roots and some animals in the spring, and restores other parts of them, such as their leaves, flowers and fruits not exactly the same but similarly. For the human being resembles a species in comparison with the other animate species, and the light of the human mind has given such a breadth to man’s actions and thought that they encompass the past and the future. If he consumes the world even, he is not satisfied. In the other species the individual being’s nature is particular; its value is personal; its view, restricted; its qualities, limited; its pleasure and pain, instantaneous. Whereas man’s nature is exalted; his value, most high; his view, universal; his qualities, limitless; his immaterial pleasure and pain in part permanent. In which case, the various resurrections which are repeated in the other animate species self-evidently tell of and point to human beings being resurrected individually and restored to life exactly the same in the great resurrection of the dead. Since it is proved with the certainty of twice two equalling four in the Ninth Truth of the Tenth Word, we cut short the discussion here.

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Fifth Point: Those who have looked closely into the realities of creation consider that the unlimited potentialities included in the essence of man’s spirit, and the unlimited abilities contained in those potentialities, and the endless desires arising from those abilities, and the infinite hopes