…whensoever a thing is destroyed, and decayeth, and is cut
off from life, it is promoted into a world that is greater than the world it
knew before. It leaveth, for example, the life of the mineral and goeth forward
into the life of the plant; then it departeth out of the vegetable life and
ascendeth into that of the animal, following which it forsaketh the life of the
animal and riseth into the realm of human life, and this is out of the grace of
thy Lord, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the
Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
