Chapter 4
Man said: Behold, I have struggled hard all my days, and met many crosses and losses. To provide for my son (or daughter) so that he shall fare better, this is goodness.
Uz said: Vain man! You do not understand the creations. Your trials, your losses and crosses, have built up your soul. To provide your son so that he shall have no trials, losses or crosses, will not be good for him. This will not be goodness. Give him experience.
Man said: Then I will teach him to not sin—to tell no lies; to not steal; to preserve his body pure. This is goodness.
Uz said: What can you do, that is not a sin? What can you teach, that is not falsehood?
You paint a picture, and say: Behold, this is my farm! In this you utter falsehood. You give a book to your son, saying: Here is a good book! This is also false. Can paper be good? You say: Here is a book of wisdom! This is also false. Wisdom does not dwell in paper.
How, then, can you teach your son to tell no lies, since no man can speak without lying?
God said: One only is Truth, Jehovih. All else are false. One only is without sin, Jehovih. All else do sin every day.
Man said: To understand the laws of the universe, this is great wisdom.
Es inquired: What is a law of the universe?
Man said: That an apple will fall to the ground.
Uz said: By my hand the apple rots; the earth to the earth; but moisture flies upward.
Jehovih said: By My touch the substance rises up out of the earth and becomes an apple. Do you say law is My opposite?
Man said: Why then, there are two laws: one to make the apple rise up and grow on a tree, and one to make it fall down again.
Es said: Is this the creation? One law to pull one way, and another law in another way?
Can one law make one rose red, and another law make another rose white? One law make one man good, and another law make another man bad?
Jehovih said: I make no laws. Behold, I labor with My own hands. I am present everywhere.
Es said: All men may be likened to green fruit, and on the way toward ripeness.
What more is man’s earth life than a tree? It has its winters and summers for a season, and then the end comes.
Jehovih said: Behold, I created light and darkness, and one follows the other.
I give dan to the earth for a season, and then I rain down ji’ay for a season. Likewise I created the soul of man: today, light and joyous; tomorrow, in gloom and melancholy.
Man inquired: How can I know if a thing is of God or if it is of nature? What is Jehovih other than natural law?
Corpor answered: What is nature, O man? What have you gained by replacing my name with another?
All that you comprehend with your corporeal senses are members of my body. Behold, the trees are mine; the mountains and valleys; the waters and every living thing; and everything that does not live. They are me.
So why do you say, nature? Now I say to you, the soul of all things is Jehovih; that which you call nature is simply the corporeal part.
Man said: I mean the laws of nature. Certain combinations under certain conditions give the same result. This is law.
God said: What have you gained by the word law, instead of the word Jehovih? If that which does a thing, does it of its own accord, then it is alive, and wise also. Therefore it is Jehovih.
If it does not do it of itself, then it is not the doer, but the instrument. How, then, can law do anything? Law is dead; and the dead do nothing.
Men make laws, as between themselves; these laws are rules governing action, but they are not action itself.
Jehovih is action. His actions are manifested in things you see. He is Light and Life. All His things are a complete whole, which is His Person.