From the time of the creation of Adam to this day there have been two pathways inthe world of humanity: one the natural or materialistic, the other thereligious or spiritual. The pathway of nature is the pathway of the animalrealm. The animal acts in accordance with the requirements of nature, followsits own instincts and desires. Whatever its impulses and proclivities may be,it has the liberty to gratify them; yet it is a captive of nature. It cannotdeviate in the least degree from the road nature has established. It is utterlylacking spiritual susceptibilities, ignorant of divine religion and withoutknowledge of the Kingdom of God. The animal possesses no power of ideation orconscious intelligence; it is a captive of the senses and deprived of thatwhich lies beyond them. It is subject to what the eye sees, the ear hears, thenostrils sense, the taste detects and touch reveals. These sensations areacceptable and sufficient for the animal. But that which is beyond the range ofthe senses, that realm of phenomena through which the conscious pathway to theKingdom of God leads, the world of spiritual susceptibilities and divinereligion -- of these the animal is completely unaware, for in its higheststation it is a captive of nature.
(Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 177)
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