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Life on Other Planets and Divine Plan

Kamal (Perfection), 13 Asma (Names) 177 B.E. - Monday, August 31, 2020

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Day 2845: Let this quote inspire your blog entry today: "There are other worlds than these." ~ Stephen King

Life on Other Planets

I know there are other planets orbiting other stars, and each planet has its own life forms. I know this because God, through His latest Holy Manifestation, has told us this. In Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah, p. 163 Baha'u'llah says "Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute."12 The reason the earlier Manifestations of God--such as His Holiness Christ--didn't give this information was because humanity wasn't mature enough to comprehend it.

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Atoms of novas disperse
across the interstellar medium to merge
with clouds of dust and gas.

Nebula--
in which stars condense and planet grow--
give birth to systems
prepared to nurture sentient life:
bodies that house nescient souls.

What creatures are these
that risen from the primal ooze
stand awestruck at the sight
of multicolored flickering lights
spread across the firmament?

Neither gods nor beast--
but having attributes of both--
at death their bodies will return to atoms of the dust,
while their souls ascent into the worlds of God.

Footnotes
1  https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/GWB/gwb-82.html
2  Quoted in What the Baha’i Writings Say About Life On Other Planets by Sagar Bhatia https://bahaiteachings.org/bahai-writings-life-planets/.