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Seventh gleam:·With a little care and effort, you can see the
Eternally‑Besought‑of‑All’s seals on Earth’s “page.” When you raise your head to
look at the great Book of the Universe, you will see on it a seal of Divine
Unity as big and clear as itself. Like a factory’s components or a palace’s
building blocks, all creatures support, aid, and work together—in perfect
orderliness—to meet each other’s needs. Joining efforts, they serve living
beings. Cooperating, they obey an All‑Wise Administrator toward one goal.
Obeying the rule of mutual assistance, which is in force throughout the
universe, they demonstrate to thoughtful people that they act through the power
of a single, Most Munificent Upbringer and at the command of a single, Most Wise
Administrator.
Such mutual support and assistance, answering of each other’s needs, close
cooperation, obedience, submission, and order testify that all creatures are
administered through a single Administrator’s organization and directed by a
single Upbringer. Also, the universal providence and favor included in the
universal wisdom, which is clearly apparent in the purposeful creation of
things, as well as the comprehensive mercy evident from the providence and the
universal sustenance required by that mercy to feed all living beings, form a
seal of Divine Unity so brilliant that anyone with sight and thought will see
and understand it.
A fabric of wisdom showing intention, consciousness, and will covers the
universe; a fine net curtain of providence and favor showing grace, adornment,
embellishment, and kindness is placed above it; over that is spread a robe of
mercy radiating the will of being known and loved, of favoring with bounties and
gifts enveloping the universe; and over that is laid a table of provision for
maintaining all creatures, which shows Lordship’s kindness, bestowal,
benevolence, perfect caring, proper nurturing, grace, and favoring. All of this
clearly shows an All‑Gracious One Who is All‑Wise, All‑Generous,
All‑Compassionate, and All‑Providing.
Is everything in need of sustenance? Yes, indeed. Like an individual being
needing food to live, all beings, especially living beings, whether universal or
particular or wholes or parts, have many material and immaterial demands and
needs that must be met if they are to continue living. Although they cannot
obtain even the smallest need, we see that all their needs are met, in an
unexpected way and from an unexpected source, with perfect order, at the
appropriate time, in a suitable fashion, and with perfect wisdom. Does this not
clearly show an All‑Wise Nurturer of Majesty, an All‑Compassionate Provider of
Grace?
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