The whole physical creation is perishable. These material
bodies are composed of atoms; when these atoms begin to separate decomposition
sets in, then comes what we call death. This composition of atoms, which
constitutes the body or mortal element of any created being, is temporary. When
the power of attraction, which holds these atoms together, is withdrawn, the
body, as such, ceases to exist.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk; November 10, 1911,
Paris; ‘Paris Talks’)
