Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 272
272 As Krishna, I now warn the Aryas of some of" their errors. The first of these has already been pointed out- It consists in the belief the matter and soul are self-existent and eternal. This is serious error, for there is nothing self-existing except the Divine Being Who does not require any one else to sustain Him. But how can things be uncreated which require another power to keep them alive and to support them ? If it be supposed to be true that matter and soul are self-existent, then their combi- nation and dissolution can also take place of themselves. In that case the only proof of the existence of God derived from the source of reason, would fall to the ground, for if matter and soul could possibly come into existence by themselves, it is much more easy for reason to assert that their combination and disso- lution did not need any assistance (Vol. . Ill E. B. 1904) An Interpretation of the Promised Messiah's descent upon a Minaret. Minaret is the name given to the pure, hallowed, noble and magnanimous spirit granted by God to the perfect man by reason of which he gets his light from heaven an idea existing in the literal signification of the word. The loftiness of the minaret; represents the magnanimity of the soul of the perfect man, ita firmness stands for the constancy and determination which he shows at the time of the greatest trials, and its whiteness is a symbol of his guiltlessness which is ultimately established. When the perfect man has passed through all these stages and undergone all these trials, when his rnaguanimity, constancy, patience and determination shine forth in their full glory and his innocence is established with conclusive arguments, then is the time of his advent in glory, and the period of his first advent, which was a time of trails and persecutions, comes to an