ual in rank to darkness? The one true God beareth Me witness! No man
can believe it, unless he be of those whose hearts are straitened, and
whose eyes have become deluded. Say: Consider your own selves. Your nails
and eyes are both parts of your bodies. Do ye regard them of equal rank
and value? If ye say, yea; say, then: ye have indeed charged with
imposture, the Lord, my God, the All-Glorious, inasmuch as ye pare the
one, and cherish the other as dearly as your own life.

To transgress the limits of one's own rank and station is, in no wise,
permissible. The integrity of every rank and station must needs be
preserved. By this is meant that every created thing should be viewed in
the light of the station it hath been ordained to occupy.

It should be borne in mind, however, that when the light of My Name, the
All-Pervading, hath shed its radiance upon the universe, each and every
created thing hath, according to a fixed decree, been endowed with the
capacity to exercise a particular influence, and been made to possess a
distinct virtue. Consider the effect of poison. Deadly though it is, it
possesseth the power of exerting, under certain conditions, a beneficial
influence. The potency infused into all created things is the direct
consequence of the revelation of this most blessed Name. Glorified be He,
Who is the Creator of all names and attributes! Cast into the fire the
tree that hath rot and dried up, and abide under the shadow of the green
and goodly Tree, and partake of the fruit thereof.

The people living in the days of the Manifestations of God have, for the
most part, uttered such unseemly sayings. These have been set down
circumstantially in the revealed Books and Holy Scriptures.

He is really a believer in the Unity of God who recognizeth in each and
every created thing the sign of the revelation of Him Who is the Eternal
Truth, and not he who maintaineth that the creature is indistinguishable
from the Creator.

Consider, for instance, the revelation of the light of the Name of God,
the Educator. Behold, how in all things the evidences of such a revelation
are manifest, how the betterment of all beings dependeth upon it. This
education is of two kinds. The one is universal. Its influence pervadeth
all things and sustaineth them. It is for this reason that God hath
assumed the title, "Lord of all worlds." The other is confined to them
that have come under the shadow of this Name, and sought the shelter of