ind, of every
contingent reality throughout the whole of creation.

Whensoever thou dost examine, through a microscope, the water man
drinketh, the air he doth breathe, thou wilt see that with every breath of
air, man taketh in an abundance of animal life, and with every draught of
water, he also swalloweth down a great variety of animals. How could it
ever be possible to put a stop to this process? For all creatures are
eaters and eaten, and the very fabric of life is reared upon this fact.
Were it not so, the ties that interlace all created things within the
universe would be unravelled.

And further, whensoever a thing is destroyed, and decayeth, and is cut off
from life, it is promoted into a world that is greater than the world it
knew before. It leaveth, for example, the life of the mineral and goeth
forward into the life of the plant; then it departeth out of the vegetable
life and ascendeth into that of the animal, following which it forsaketh
the life of the animal and riseth into the realm of human life, and this
is out of the grace of thy Lord, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

I beg of God that He will assist thee to comprehend the mysteries that lie
at the heart of creation, and will draw away the veil from before thine
eyes and thy sister's, that the well-guarded secret may be disclosed unto
thee, and the hidden mystery be revealed as clear as the sun at noonday;
that He will aid thy sister and thy husband to enter the Kingdom of God,
and will heal thee of every ill, whether physical or spiritual, that
assaileth one in this life.

138: O YE BELOVED OF THE LORD! THE KINGDOM OF GOD ...

O ye beloved of the Lord! The Kingdom of God is founded upon equity and
justice, and also upon mercy, compassion, and kindness to every living
soul. Strive ye then with all your heart to treat compassionately all
humankind--except for those who have some selfish, private motive, or some
disease of the soul. Kindness cannot be shown the tyrant, the deceiver, or
the thief, because, far from awakening them to the error of their ways, it
maketh them to continue in their perversity as before. No matter how much
kindliness ye may expend upon the liar, he will but lie the more, for he
believeth you to be deceived, while ye understand him but too well, and
only remain silent out of your extreme compassion.

Briefly, it is not only their fellow human beings that the beloved of God
must treat with mercy and compassion, r