Everything in the universe exists in a precise order and balance that demonstrates an intelligent design. When examined more closely, this order is continually maintained, showing the work of a singular powerful entity with wisdom and knowledge. From the beginnings and ends of living things, to their external and internal structures, the entire natural world points to a single creator with unlimited power, will, knowledge, and wisdom that governs all things.

1. Everything Points to One

2. “ When we open our eyes, when the universe fastens our gaze on its face, the first thing to attract our attention is a universal and perfect order;

3. everything exists within a precise order and delicate balance and measure.

4. When we look a little more carefully, a continual ordering and balancing strike our eye.

5. That is to say, someone is changing the order with regularity and renewing the balance with measuredness.

6. Everything is a model and is clothed in a great many well-ordered and balanced forms.

7. When we study it even more closely, a wisdom and justice appear behind the ordering and balancing.

8. A purpose and benefit are considered, a truth, a usefulness are followed in the motion of everything, even the minutest particles.

9. When we study it with even greater attention, what strikes the gaze of our consciousness is the demonstration of a power within an extremely wise activity,

10. and the manifestation of a most comprehensive knowledge which encompasses all things together with all their attributes.

11. That is to say, this order and balance which are in all beings show us plainly a universal ordering and balancing,

12. and the ordering and balancing show us a universal wisdom and justice;

13. and the wisdom and justice in turn show us a power and knowledge.

14. That is, it is apparent that behind these veils is One Powerful over all things Who has Knowledge of all things.

15. Furthermore, we look to the beginning and end of all things, and we see, particularly in animate creatures,

16. that their beginnings, origins, and roots are such that it is as if their seeds contain all the systems and members of those creatures,

17. … each in the form of an instruction sheet and timetable.

18. And again, their fruits and results are such that the meanings of those animate creatures are filtered and concentrated in them; they bequeath their life histories to them .

19. It is as if their seeds are collections of the principles according to which they are created, and their fruits and results a sort of index of the commands of their creation.

20. Then we look to the outer and inner faces of those animate creatures:

21. … the free disposal of an utterly wise power and the fashioning and ordering of an utterly effective will are apparent.

22. That is, a strength and power create; a command and will clothe with form.

23. Thus, when we study all beings carefully, we observe that their beginnings are instruction sheets prepared by One Possessing Knowledge,

24. and that their ends are plans and manifestos of a Maker;

25. that their outer faces are skilful and beautifully proportioned dresses of artistry devised by One Who Chooses and Wills,

26. and their inner faces, most well-designed machines of an All-Powerful One.

27. This situation, therefore, necessarily and self-evidently proclaims that no time and no place, absolutely nothing, can be outside the grip of power of one single Glorious Maker.

28. Each thing and all things, together with all of their attributes, are organized and directed within the grip of power of an All-Powerful Possessor of Will;

29. … they are made beautiful through the ordering and graciousness of a Merciful and Compassionate One;

30. … and they are embellished with the adorning of a Loving Benefactor.

31. Indeed, for anyone who is intelligent and has eyes in his head, the order and equilibrium, and ordering and adorning that there are in the universe and in the beings within it demonstrate,

32. … at the degree of Unity, One Who is Single, Sole, Solitary, Unique, All-Powerful, Possessing of Will, All-Knowing, and All-Wise.

33. Assuredly, there is a unity in everything, and as for unity, it points to one.

34. For example, the whole world is illuminated by one lamp, the sun; in which case, the Owner of the world is One.

35. And, for example, all the animate creatures on the earth are served by air, fire, and water, which are the same.

36. Since this is so, the One Who employs them and subjugates them to us is also One.

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