to attain this station and be illumined
with its light it could then be truly said of it: "Thou shall see in it no
hollows or rising hills."

CXXIII: THE GENERATIONS THAT HAVE GONE ON BEFORE...

The generations that have gone on before you--whither are they fled? And
those round whom in life circled the fairest and the loveliest of the
land, where now are they? Profit by their example, O people, and be not of
them that are gone astray.

Others ere long will lay hands on what ye possess, and enter into your
habitations. Incline your ears to My words, and be not numbered among the
foolish.

For every one of you his paramount duty is to choose for himself that on
which no other may infringe and none usurp from him. Such a thing--and to
this the Almighty is My witness--is the love of God, could ye but perceive
it.

Build ye for yourselves such houses as the rain and floods can never
destroy, which shall protect you from the changes and chances of this
life. This is the instruction of Him Whom the world hath wronged and
forsaken.

CXXIV: HOW WONDROUS IS THE UNITY OF THE LIVING,...

How wondrous is the unity of the Living, the Ever-Abiding God--a unity
which is exalted above all limitations, that transcendeth the
comprehension of all created things! He hath, from everlasting, dwelt in
His inaccessible habitation of holiness and glory, and will unto
everlasting continue to be enthroned upon the heights of His independent
sovereignty and grandeur. How lofty hath been His incorruptible Essence,
how completely independent of the knowledge of all created things, and how
immensely exalted will it remain above the praise of all the inhabitants
of the heavens and the earth!

From the exalted source, and out of the essence of His favor and bounty He
hath entrusted every created thing with a sign of His knowledge, so that
none of His creatures may be deprived of its share in expressing, each
according to its capacity and rank, this knowledge. This sign is the
mirror of His beauty in the world of creation. The greater the effort
exerted for the refinement of this sublime and noble mirror, the more
faithfully will it be made to reflect the glory of the names and
attributes of God, and reveal the wonders of His signs and knowledge.
Every created thing will be enabled (so great is this reflecting power) to
reveal the potentialities of its pre-ordained station, will recognize its
capacity and limitations, and