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Kamal (Perfection), 13 Asma (Names) 177 B.E. - Monday, August 31, 2020
Day 2845: Let this quote inspire your blog entry today: "There are other worlds than these." ~ Stephen King Life on Other Planets I know there are other planets orbiting other stars, and each planet has its own life forms. I know this because God, through His latest Holy Manifestation, has told us this. In Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah, p. 163 Baha'u'llah says "Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute."34 The reason the earlier Manifestations of God--such as His Holiness Christ--didn't give this information was because humanity wasn't mature enough to comprehend it. Atoms of novas disperse across the interstellar medium to merge with clouds of dust and gas. Nebula-- in which stars condense and planet grow-- give birth to systems prepared to nurture sentient life: bodies that house nescient souls. What creatures are these that risen from the primal ooze stand awestruck at the sight of multicolored flickering lights spread across the firmament? Neither gods nor beast-- but having attributes of both-- at death their bodies will return to atoms of the dust, while their souls ascent into the worlds of God. Footnotes |