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object the
potential rest of which is not required by the mind. The sudden is originated because of its
immediate
occurrence and that which has gone is also an originated matter since it is no longer due to the
fact if it
is proven it is ancient it will obligate that it does not turn to nothing - details of which
will be explained
in proving eternity of the Maker - the High, the Purified.
The third assertion is our statement that whatever is not independent of originated things is itself
originated. Its proof lies in the fact that if it were not so, then there would be, before every
originated
phenomenon, other originated phenomena which have no beginning; and unless these originated
phenomena come to nothing in their entirety, the turn for the present originated phenomena to come
into being immediately would never arrive. But it is impossible for that which has no end to come
to
nothing.
Furthermore if the celestial spheres have revolutions, the numbers of which have no end, it is
potential rest of which is not required by the mind. The sudden is originated because of its
immediate
occurrence and that which has gone is also an originated matter since it is no longer due to the
fact if it
is proven it is ancient it will obligate that it does not turn to nothing - details of which
will be explained
in proving eternity of the Maker - the High, the Purified.
The third assertion is our statement that whatever is not independent of originated things is itself
originated. Its proof lies in the fact that if it were not so, then there would be, before every
originated
phenomenon, other originated phenomena which have no beginning; and unless these originated
phenomena come to nothing in their entirety, the turn for the present originated phenomena to come
into being immediately would never arrive. But it is impossible for that which has no end to come
to
nothing.
Furthermore if the celestial spheres have revolutions, the numbers of which have no end, it is