Chapter 7
I created man, even from the beginning, that he should learn to be an independent being, says Jehovih.
And when My angels had taught man speech, making him name all the animals in the world, after the names the animals called themselves, I commanded My angels to come away from man for a season.
To My angels I said: Behold, of all the animals I created in the world, to man only I gave the capacity to transmit knowledge to his brethren by words.
And only to man I gave capacity to comprehend an idea of Me, his Creator.
Nevertheless, I inspire all living animals that I created; but they do not know it.
I inspire the spider to make its net; the bird to build her nest; the wild goose to fly south, before the winter comes; the mare to neigh for her colt; the ant to lay in its stores; the bees to dwell in a queendom; and so on. By My inspiration upon them I move and control every living creature.
Males and females I inspire to come together at times and seasons; and then to live apart during gestation. I keep these examples before man as a lesson of the wisdom of My inspiration.
To man I give liberty to acquire wisdom by observing the method of My work, as I manifest in other living creatures.
I have also given man capacity to attain to know My inspiration in contradistinction from the inspiration he receives from his surroundings.
To no other creature did I give this capacity.
What comes of Me, is without pain or injury to anyone, and with liberty to all. Such are My inspirations.
When man witnesses a battle, he is inspired to battle; when he witnesses peace and love, he is inspired to peace and love.
What moves man in consonance and wisdom, and to life, is My inspiration.
What moves man in dissonance and folly, and to death, is inspiration from man’s surroundings.
I inspire the serpent to bite to death; for so I created it. This is no sin, for it fulfills its labor; it is the remnant of poison of other eras.
Man I created not to destruction, but to life, wisdom, peace and love toward all.
When man practices virtue, wisdom, truth and love to all, his inspiration is from Me direct.
When man practices destruction and selfishness, his inspiration is indirectly from Me, through the conflict of his surroundings.
And thus he becomes evil, instead of good.
Through direct inspiration I move upon all the animals I created.
This I also created possible to men, separate from indirect inspiration.