![[Previous Page]](../../images/prev.gif)
page 12
![[Next Page]](../../images/next.gif)
crafts, inventions and discoveries, have been once
the secrets of nature and in conformity with the
laws thereof must remain hidden; yet man through
his discovering power interfereth with the laws of
nature and transfereth these hidden secrets from the
invisible to the visible plane. This again is interfering
with the laws of nature.
In fine, that inner faculty in man, unseen of the eye, wresteth the sword from the hands of nature, and giveth it a grievous blow. All other beings, however great, are bereft of such perfections. Man hath the powers of will and understanding, but nature hath them not. Nature is constrained, man is free. Nature is bereft of understanding, man understandeth. Nature is unaware of past events, but man is aware of them. Nature forecasteth not the future; man by his discerning power seeth that which is to come. Nature hath no consciousness of itself, man knoweth about all things.
Should any one suppose that man is but a part
of the world of nature, and he being endowed with
these perfections, these being but manifestations of
the world of nature, and thus nature is the originator
of these perfections and is not deprived therefrom,
to him we make reply and say: the part
dependeth upon the whole; the part cannot possess
perfections whereof the whole is deprived.