Thus this flower once upon a time was of the soil. The
animal eats the flower or its fruit, and it thereby ascends to the animal
kingdom. Man eats the meat of the animal, and there you have its ascent into
the human kingdom, because all phenomena are divided into that which eats and
that which is eaten. Therefore, every primordial atom of these atoms, singly
and indivisible, has had its coursings throughout all the sentient creation,
going constantly into the aggregation of the various elements. Hence do you
have the conservation of energy and the infinity of phenomena, the
indestructibility of phenomena, changeless and immutable, because life cannot
suffer annihilation but only change.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (from a talk, ‘Foundations
of World Unity’; compilation ‘Nature’, prepared by the Research Department of
the Universal House of Justice)
