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"The servant of His threshold ruleth over all created things!" (Iqan 124) (37:1) "All phenomenal beings-- the plants in their kingdom, even the animals with their intelligence-- are nature's subjects and captives. All live within the bounds of natural law, and nature is the ruler of all except man. Man is not the captive of nature... he has overcome natural law and made it subservient to his wishes... Man has intelligence; nature has not. Man has volition; nature is minus. Man has memory;... nature is deprived. Man has the perceptive faculty; nature cannot perceive. It is therefore proved and evident that man is nobler than nature." (Pup 14- 5) (37:2) "Out of the wastes of nothingness, with the clay of My command I made thee to appear, and have ordained for thy training every atom in existence and the essence of all created things." (Hwp 32) (37:3) "Thou didst, through a Word of Thy mouth, bring creation into being and fashion the universe." (Bwf 142) (37:4) "Inasmuch as He, the sovereign Lord of all, hath willed to reveal His sovereignty in the kingdom of names and attributes, each and every created thing hath, through the act of the Divine Will, been made a sign of His glory. So pervasive and general is this revelation that nothing whatsoever in the whole universe can be discovered that doth not reflect His splendor... Were the Hand of Divine power to divest of this high endowment all created things, the entire universe would become desolate and void." (Bwf 97) (37:5) "Every created thing in the whole universe is but a door leading into His knowledge, a sign of His sovereignty, a revelation of His names, a symbol of His majesty, a token of His power, a means of admittance into his straight Path." (Gl 160) (37:6) "As to thy question whether the physical world is subject to any limitations, know that the comprehension of this matter dependeth upon the observer himself. In one sense, it is limited, in another, it is exalted... beyond all limitations... His creation, likewise, hath had no beginning, and will have no end." (Gl 162)
(37:7)
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