Now concerning nature, it is but the essential properties
and the necessary relations inherent in the realities of things. And though
these infinite realities are diverse in their character yet they are in the
utmost harmony and closely connected together. As one's vision is broadened and
the matter observed carefully, it will be made certain that every reality is
but an essential requisite of other realities. Thus to connect and harmonize
these diverse and infinite realities an all-unifying Power is necessary, that
every part of existent being may in perfect order discharge its own function.
Consider the body of man, and let the part be an indication of the whole.
Consider how these diverse parts and members of the human body are closely
connected and harmoniously united one with the other. Every part is the essential
requisite of all other parts and has a function by itself. It is the mind that
is the all-unifying agency that so uniteth all the component parts one with the
other that each dischargeth its specific function in perfect order, and thereby
co-operation and reaction are made possible.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablet to Dr.
Forel, printed in "The Bahá'í World 1968-1973", vol. XV; compilation
‘Nature’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of
Justice)
