The Flashes (Revised 2009 edition) | The Thirtieth Flash | 443
(391-499)

This astonishing travelling and passage of beings and flow and flux of creatures is  driven  and  directed  with  such  order,  balance  and  wisdom,  and  the  one  who commands them and those convoys does so with such insight, purpose and planning that even if all  minds  were to unite and become one mind, it would be unable to comprehend the essence of this wise direction; it would be unable to find any fault in it and so could not criticize it.

Thus, within this dominical activity, not allowing any of those pleasing creatures that  it  loves,  especially animate  creatures,  to  open  their  eyes,  the  pen  of divine determining and decree despatches them to the World of the Unseen; not permitting them  even  to  draw  a  breath,  it  discharges  them  from  the  life  of  this  world.  It continuously fills  the  guesthouse  of the world  and empties it without the guests consent. Making the globe of the earth like a slate for writing and erasing, through the manifestation of

 

He grants life and deals death,(2:258)

 

the pen of divine determining and decree ceaselessly inscribes writings on it, and renews and replaces them.

One meaning of the wisdom in this dominical activity and divine creativity and a fundamental requirement and a motive cause of them is a limitless, endless instance of wisdom that may be divided into three important branches.

The  First  Branch  of  that  wisdom  is  this:  Every  sort  of  activity,  whether

particular or universal,  yields pleasure. There is a pleasure in all activity. Indeed, activity is pure pleasure. Yes, activity is the manifestation of existence, which is pure pleasure and is the  shaking off and becoming distant from non-existence, which is pure suffering.

Everyone with ability follows with pleasure the unfolding of his ability through activity.  The revealing of innate talents through activity arises from a pleasure and results in a pleasure. Everyone who possesses some perfections follows with pleasure their disclosure through activity.

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