It may be understood then just how important are the sacred meanings and divine dominicality arising from the constant activity and dominical creativity which, on the demise of their external existences, cause all animate creatures to leave behind them multiple existences  taken from them, like their spirits, essences, identities, forms, existences in the Worlds of Similitudes, Knowledge, and the Unseen, the sheaths of their spirits, and astral bodies, all of  which are charged with duties in their places. This is explained in the Twenty-Fourth Letter.

A Decisive Answer to an Important Question

One group of the people of misguidance says that the being who changes and transforms the universe with this constant activity must himself be subject to change and alteration.

T h e  A n s w e r : God forbid! A hundred thousand times, God forbid! The fact that mirrors on the ground change demonstrates not that the sun in the sky changes, but on the contrary that its manifestations are being renewed. Moreover, change and alteration are impossible in the Most Pure and Holy Essence, who is pre-eternal, post- eternal, sempiternal, in every respect absolutely perfect and absolutely self-sufficient, totally free of, detached from, and beyond matter, space, restriction, and contingency. Change  in  the  universe  points  to  his  lack  of  change  and  alteration,  not  to  His changing. For one who causes constant change and causes numerous things to move must himself be unchanging and not move.

For example, if you spin a large number of globes and balls which have each been tied to a piece of string and cause them all to move unceasingly within an order, you have to remain in one place and not change or move, for if you did, it would spoil the order. It is clear that one who causes objects to move within an order must himself not  move,  and  one  who  causes  objects  to  change  ceaselessly  must  himself  be unchanging so that these actions may continue in an orderly fashion.

Secondly: Change and alteration arise from createdness, from being renewed in

order to be perfected, from need, materiality, and contingency. Since the Most Pure and  Holy  Essence  is  both  eternal,  and  in  every  respect  absolutely  perfect  and absolutely self-sufficient, and totally detached from matter, and necessarily existent, most certainly His changing and altering is not possible; it is impossible.