have been mentioned to bring the subject closer to the understanding and to dispel any doubts.

#### Result and Summary

Result and Summary of the

Third Fundamental Point

Since pre-eternal power is infinite, and is the inherent, necessary quality of the Most Pure and Holy Essence; and since the stainless, veilless inner aspect of everything is turned to it and faces it, and is in balance with respect to contingency, which consists of the equal possibility of being and non-being; and since this inner face is obedient to the order of creation and the divine laws of the universe which form the Greater Shari‘a, the Shari‘a of Creation, and it is disengaged from and free of obstacles and different characteristics; certainly, like the smallest thing, the greatest cannot resist that power, nor expect more from it than the smallest. In which case, the raising to life of all beings with spirits at the resurrection will be no more difficult for divine power than raising a fly to life in the spring. Thus, the decree of:

Your creation and your resurrection is but like a single soul,(31:28)

is no exaggeration; it is true and correct. And our claim that “the Agent possesses the power” has been proved true in decisive fashion; there is nothing to hinder it in this respect.

Fourth Fundamental Point

FOURTH FUNDAMENTAL POINT

Just as there are things necessitating the resurrection of the dead and Great Gathering, and the One Who will bring it about possesses the power to do so, so the world possesses the potential for the resurrection of the dead and Great Gathering. There are four matters in this assertion of mine that “this place is possible.”

The First is the possibility of this world’s death.

The Second is its actual death.

The Third is the possibility of the destroyed, dead world being reconstructed and resurrected in the form of the hereafter.

The Fourth is its actual reconstruction and resurrection, which are possible.

#### First Matter

FIRST MATTER: The universe’s death is possible. For if something is included in the law of evolution and being perfected, there is bound to be growth and development in it. And if there is growth and development, that thing is bound to have a natural lifespan. And if it has a natural lifespan, there has to be a time for its natural death; it is established by inductive reasoning and extensive investigation that it cannot save itself from the