Life Supreme — Page 93
96. LIFE SUPREME descended upon him in abundance for in this age he was the elect of the elect. Despite his lofty and exalted office he was a personification of humility. Regarding himself he wrote in a poem: "I am a mere worm of the earth,. Not even fit to be called a human being;. For men an object of contempt. وو. WHENCE THE UNIVERSE. As we endeavour to unravel the secrets of the universe, we are automatically confronted with the question how this voluminous mass of matter comprising innumerable solar systems came into existence. Man's concern is really limited only to that small dot of space which is occupied by our solar system; and in that dot is the tiniest of specks on which he lives. It has been said that a million times a million atoms makes a lump too small to see; and it well may be true that in relation to te size of the universe the world is no larger than an atom. . Once again let us try to picture the immensity of the universe. Our solar system is part of a gigantic galaxy of stars; and the Milky Way is only a part of it. Every star which can be seen with the naked eye is a unit of this galaxy; yet we are told by our leading astronomers that a trillion galaxies lie within range of our largest telescopes. That is to say a million times a million; and no one knows how many more trillions of galaxies lie beyond the range of the telescopes. . Whence came the universe? Before matter became moulded into globular shapes no doubt there was a time when it existed in a different and extenuated form; but in this treatise we are not dealing with the chemistry of the universe. We are concerned with the original cause behind the creation of matter; and we are assisted from the knowledge that something cannot be created from nothing. This is a self-evident fact which directs us to the conclusion that there must exist an omnipotent power. . The source from which matter originated has been a stumbling block to many astronomers and scientists. Patrick Moore, a wellknown astronomer has said:. CC . . . When we come to consider how the universe itself was created we run up against a blank wall. "