Say: Nature in its essence is the embodiment of My Name, the
Maker, the Creator. Its manifestations are diversified by varying causes, and
in this diversity there are signs for men of discernment. Nature is God's Will
and is its expression in and through the contingent world. It is a dispensation
of Providence ordained by the Ordainer, the All-Wise. Were anyone to affirm
that it is the Will of God as manifested in the world of being, no one should
question this assertion. It is endowed with a power whose reality men of
learning fail to grasp. Indeed a man of insight can perceive naught therein
save the effulgent splendour of Our Name, the Creator. Say: This is an
existence which knoweth no decay, and Nature itself is lost in bewilderment
before its revelations, its compelling evidences and its effulgent glory which
have encompassed the universe. - Baha'u'llah ('Tablets of Baha'u'llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas')
