The Beginning pg. 1-11
“Consider a table which comes into being when a carpenter chooses a piece of wood to work on. In this operation, the piece of wood assumes a female role and is shaped to the carpenter’s design. The table — the child born of the intercourse between the mind of the carpenter and the piece of wood — combines within itself the characteristics of both its parents. Its style, its beauty and proportions, its shape and construction all represent the art and craft of its father, the carpenter; whereas its colour, quality and consistency are inherited from its mother, namely, the piece of wood.
A similar principle governs the birth of a civilization whose founder, by imparting his ideas and principles to a society, plays the part of the male. The society, the recipient of his teachings, acts on the other hand as a female agent. The child of this mystical intercourse is a new civilization which reflects the characteristics of the founder as well as those of the society within whose womb it was conceived.
Religions are born as a result of the spiritual intercourse between God, on the one hand, and the person of the Manifestation of God, on the other. In His inscrutable wisdom, God chooses one of His servants from among humanity and makes Him the recipient of His Revelation. He releases within the soul of His chosen One the spiritual forces of His Revelation, while the person of the Manifestation, emptying Himself of self and human qualities and submitting Himself entirely to the will of His Creator, becomes a worthy recipient of these spiritual energies.”
-Adib Taherzadeh
Within these first few pages I came across profound and detailed examples of how we came into creation, how civilization and humanity evolve, and the fundamental connection between all created things. I really enjoy Adib Taherzadeh’s method of explanation; he is science inspired and spiritually driven. The text is factual and gives the vibe of “it is as it sounds”. He also has taken the time for many footnotes that are thorough and they are very helpful.
I was launched deep into thought as he described the birth of creation, society, humans, and revelation as a child between two responsible variables. God and His Manifestation combine to create the Revelation for that age. The carpenter and the wood combine to create a table, and in the table is the presence of the carpenter and the wood. The notion that this is universally applied to all things is truly an infinite contemplation…
