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"It has been before said that spirit is universally divided into five categories: the vegetable spirit, the animal spirit, the human spirit, the spirit of faith, and the Holy Spirit." (Bwf 316) The Holy Spirit is the bounty of God, and the luminous rays which emanate from the Manifestations." (Saq 124) (40:1) "Whoso hath been quickened by its vitalizing power, will find himself impelled to attain the court of the Beloved; and whoso hath deprived himself therefrom, will sink into irretrievable despondency." (Bwf 96) (40:2) "A man sees, hears or speaks-- seeing, hearing and speaking being the different functions of the same power or reality that animates him... The one invisible primal essence had various names." (RofM 16 '56 Ed) (40:3) "There is still another power which is differentiated from that of the soul and mind" (though the soul has access to it). "This... power is the spirit which is an emanation from the divine Bestower..., the spirit of faith, the spirit... Christ refers to when He says, 'Those that are born of flesh are flesh, and those that are born of the spirit are spirit.'" Faith "is the axis round which the eternal life revolves." (RofM 17 '56 Ed) (40:4) "The reality of man is the collective reality, the general reality, and is the center where the glory of all the perfections of God shine forth." (Bwf 311) (40:5) "O Son of the Wondrous Vision! I have breathed within thee a breath of My own Spirit, that thou mayest be My lover. Why hast thou forsaken Me and sought a beloved other than Me? (Hwa 8) (40:6) "The breeze of holiness, laden with the love of Thy Lord, (hath) stirred thy spirit within thee, and the waters of understanding have washed from thee the stains of remoteness and ungodliness." (Gl 303) (40:7) "The first sign of faith is love." (Pup 331) (40:8) "The life of the flesh is common to both men and animals, whereas the life of the spirit is possessed only by the pure in heart who have quaffed from the ocean of faith and partaken of the fruit of certitude." (Iqan 120) (40:9) "The spirit in the soul is the very essence of life." (Pt 86) (40:10) When the power of attraction (linking), which holds... atoms together, is withdrawn, the body, as such, ceases to exist." (Pt 91) (40:11) "This limitless universe is like the human body, all the members of which are connected and linked with one another with the greatest strength..., and influence one another spiritually and materially." (Saq 284- 5)
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