In the context of our previous discussion, we called the infinite universe a universe of doubt; because when a person leaves the Source open to an infinite number of possibilities and conceptions, they inevitably enter an endless chain of doubts. If a person follows their assumptions about the Source, they will never reach ultimate certainty. Instead, they will continue moving from one conception to another, from one possibility to another, and from one belief to another, without ever reaching a point at which they can say: I have reached the truth.
Here the matter becomes clearer: there are two paths before the human being, and no third. Either one remains within the circle of multiple assumptions about the Source, or one searches for firm certainty concerning it. Doubt, by its nature, always contains something incomplete; as long as you are merely assuming, you have not reached certainty, because your vision still contains an open possibility and an unresolved doubt.
For this reason, I do not believe that the matter of the Source can remain open to infinitely many names or infinitely many conceptions. There is a Source, and it has an identity, a name, characteristics, and boundaries. The discussion concerning it cannot be transformed into an infinite field of possibilities.
The Source Is Not an Abstract Idea Without an Identity
From here we arrive at another extremely important question: Is the Source abstract?
For a long time, I followed the idea that God is abstract, or that the Source should be completely transcendent of every identity, name, attribute, and particularity. But continuing along this line of thought ultimately led me to a different conclusion: the Source is not abstract in this sense.
Absolute abstraction of the Source from its essence, identity, characteristics, names, and attributes can ultimately become a stripping of the Source of its very identity. If you remove everything that makes it what it is, then whom are you actually talking about?
A Source with no identity, no name, no particularity, no attributes, and no possibility of identification becomes an unlimited and undefined source. In this form, it cannot exist in the way we are speaking of it, because it becomes a general idea onto which any meaning can be projected.
Therefore, I have reached the conclusion that the Source possesses identity, particularity, boundaries, and names, and that reaching it cannot occur through changing assumptions, but through firm certainty.
From here we can also understand the danger of attempting to strip the Source of its essence. Whoever attempts to alter the identity of the Source or remove its characteristics is not merely changing the way it is discussed; in effect, they may be replacing the true Source with another source—constructing an alternative conception of the Source and then presenting it to human beings as though it were the Source itself.
Thus, changing beliefs becomes a means of changing the image of the Source within the human mind.
The Message Between the Creator and Humanity
After this introduction, I can state my position clearly regarding the question of the message: I believe that there are messages between the Creator and human beings.
At its essence, the message is not merely the transmission of information; it is an declaration of importance.
Why?
Because affirming the existence of the Creator and affirming His intervention in existence gives human beings certainty that they do not exist randomly or without purpose or order. If there is a Creator who communicates with humanity, then there is order, harmony, wisdom, mercy, accountability, balance, justice, knowledge, power, will, and all the meanings contained in the divine attributes.
Affirming the existence and intervention of the Creator strengthens within the human being the sense that their existence matters. By contrast, imagining the Creator as having created the world and then completely abandoned it without intervention or communication gradually pushes humanity toward a feeling of marginalization, meaninglessness, and randomness.
If the Creator created something and then completely abandoned it, in what sense would that thing possess importance?
Communication, on the other hand, means that the human being is not something left without consideration.
Here we are not yet discussing the historical details of what actually happened; rather, we are discussing the essence, necessity, and logic of the message.
Human Centrality Derives from the Creator
The human being cannot, by themselves, grant themselves absolute centrality.
Human centrality in existence derives its meaning from the centrality of the Creator. If the relationship between humanity and the Creator is severed, human beings gradually lose the foundation that gives legitimacy to their distinction and centrality.
A human being does not become distinguished simply because they declare themselves distinguished. Their distinction requires a foundation higher than themselves.
This is where the idea of difference and distinction emerges.
The Creator is the One who distinguished human beings from other creatures through characteristics unique to humanity. This uniqueness gives human beings a certain importance, centrality, and unique relationship with the Creator.
This helps us understand why, within certain conceptions that reject a special relationship between the Creator and humanity, we repeatedly find attempts to undermine the importance of human beings themselves: according to this conception, humans merely imagine that they are important; they imagine that they are distinguished; they imagine that they deserve the Creator's intervention on their behalf.
Yet the consequence of this conception is to strip humanity of its centrality and sever the relationship that gives meaning to its distinction.
Since the earliest stages of their existence, human beings have been concerned with the idea of the Creator in one way or another, through one description or another, in one form or another. The existence or nonexistence of the Creator has always been a matter of importance to humanity.
This leads to a reciprocal relationship: human beings care about the Creator, and the Creator cares about human beings.
Why Is the Message Important?
A message is important only if the recipient is important.
Yet what happens in the modern age is a profound devaluation of the concept of the message. The abundance of messages has caused the message itself to lose some of its value; human beings receive messages constantly, until permanent communication itself becomes ordinary and no longer necessarily indicates importance.
This leads to a deeper observation: when communication becomes without purpose, the message becomes without value.
But the message in its original sense is something extremely important, because when one person sends something to another, it means that there is something worth transmitting.
Therefore, the divine message to humanity can be understood as an announcement of human importance.
The Creator, as the first principle of importance, is the One who grants things their value. When He makes the human being worthy of being addressed, knowing Him, and communicating with Him, He grants that human being importance in the first place.
In return, the human being is required to recognize the importance of the Creator; because recognizing the importance of the Creator is what gives meaning to the importance of creatures and existence itself.
If the Creator is not important, then nothing becomes truly important.
At that point, importance is transferred to illusion, nothingness, and the impossible, and value itself becomes without a center.
The Message as a System of Communication
If we contemplate the systems around us, we find that communication and messages are fundamental to their operation.
Even our biological systems function through the transmission of signals and messages; each system communicates with other systems, and each component sends signals to other components.
Likewise, the systems created by human beings operate through communication: one sector sends information to another, a larger sector directs smaller sectors, and information moves from one level to another until the system operates as a unified whole.
Without communication, gaps and dysfunctions emerge.
Thus, the message becomes a fundamental means of achieving order and integration.
If this principle exists within biological and human systems, then the message between the Creator and the creature, within this conception, becomes a means of establishing an integrated relationship between the Source and what proceeds from it.
The Messenger and the Perfect Human Being
Here we return to an idea previously discussed: the Perfect Human Being.
It was said that the Perfect Human Being is the intermediary of the relationship between creation and the Creator. Today, we can add that the message itself is also an intermediary of this relationship.
The messenger is the essence of this mediation.
We may see multiple messengers throughout history, but multiplicity does not necessarily mean multiplicity of origin. There may be multiple messengers who receive from one Source, such that there is a universal concept of the messenger, while the others are messengers from him or bearers of his message.
Thus, the Perfect Human Being becomes the link, while the message is what is transmitted through that link.
The message carries from the Creator to the creature values, teachings, knowledge, guidance, direction, wisdom, and beauty, along with everything that contributes to establishing the correct relationship between the Source and the creature.
It is a process through which meaning and importance are transferred from the Source to the creature.
For this reason, the message is not merely words; it is part of the very structure of the relationship.
The Message and the Distinction of Humanity from Other Creatures
Why do some reject the message between the Creator and the creature?
Because, in its essence, the message means the distinction of humanity.
The message teaches and guides human beings, moving them from a state of ignorance, lack of knowledge, lack of guidance, and error into a state in which they can distinguish between what is harmful and beneficial, and between good and evil.
Through this distinction, the human being becomes capable of positioning themselves in the best place:
geographically, psychologically, socially, intellectually, and existentially.
Here a profound relationship emerges between the Creator's preference for humanity and humanity's preference for the Creator.
When a human being prefers the Creator above all else and distinguishes Him from everything else, they simultaneously distinguish themselves from other creatures through this relationship.
Ultimately, the human being returns to their centrality—not as a self-proclaimed status, but as the consequence of their relationship with the Source of centrality.
The Sacred House and the Distinguished Human Being
From here, these ideas can be connected to what was previously said about the Sacred House.
The Sacred House, according to that conception, is the house established upon sound foundations, in a distinguished place, by a distinguished human being—what was previously called the sacred human being.
Thus, we have:
A distinguished human being, a distinguished environment, and a distinguished place.
This distinction indicates the status of that human being before the Creator.
One might ask: Is the Creator unjust because He did not give everyone the same degree of importance?
The answer, according to this conception, is simple: because the distinguished human being gave importance to the Creator and distinguished Him above everything beneath Him.
When the human being turns toward the Creator and makes Him the center, that centrality is reflected back upon the human being.
Thus, speaking of the pure house or the pure land becomes a discussion of a geographically distinguished place and a spiritually distinguished status, connected to a distinguished human being and a distinguished relationship with the Source.
Distinguishing the Creator from the Creature
If the message is what distinguishes humanity from other creatures, then the human being is the creature capable of comprehending the command of the Creator and the concept of the Creator.
The human being can differentiate, distinguish, and reason.
From here comes one of the most important principles of the message: distinguishing the Creator from all that is other than Him and sanctifying Him above all that is other than Him.
The Creator is not like the creature.
The creature may derive certain qualities or attributes from the Creator, such as knowledge, power, hearing, sight, wisdom, will, and beauty, but the relationship does not operate in the opposite direction.
The creature may derive an attribute from its Source, but the Creator derives nothing from the creature.
Why?
Because the Creator is the Source of distinction and the origin of value.
If a creature possesses a complete quality, characteristic, or attribute, then according to this conception, its original source ultimately goes back to the Creator.
Therefore, distinguishing the Creator from the creature is not a secondary matter; it is a fundamental principle for understanding creation and the relationship between the Source and what proceeds from it.
Complete Creation and Incomplete Creation
From here we arrive at another fundamental idea: good creation and evil creation.
If creation occurred through the Perfect Human Being, then there is what benefits the Perfect Human Being and what harms him.
Good creation is that which occurs through the Perfect Human Being, while evil creation is that which occurs through the incomplete human being.
But evil cannot reach completion because it cannot obtain the Creator's support for its project.
Here an important principle emerges: the project of the Perfect Human Being will be completed, while the project of evil will not be completed.
Why?
Because the Creator loves goodness and perfection and tends toward completing the project that accords with wisdom and righteousness.
Those who do good, according to this conception, receive assistance in completing their good, while those who do evil do not receive such support for their project.
When the Creator does not support a corrupt project, that project remains incomplete and distorted, like a creation that appears for a moment and then dies because it has not received the means necessary for continuation.
For this reason, the Perfect Human Being is the bearer of the complete message.
Why Do the Corrupt Reject the Message?
Those who reject the message, according to this conception, want to create randomly without relying upon the Creator.
But the Creator does not assist the corrupt person in their corruption.
Indeed, He may prevent them from completing their work.
For this reason, the corrupt do not want to hear the message or listen to its guidance, because the message prevents them from transforming corruption into a complete project.
Wisdom itself is not granted to the corrupt in complete form.
If the corrupt possessed complete wisdom and complete power and used them for corruption, they would be capable of doing everything.
Therefore, the wisdom of the corrupt remains incomplete, and their ability remains incomplete, regardless of how great their intelligence becomes.
Complete intelligence cannot coexist with complete heedlessness; for the heedless person, no matter how intelligent they may be, cannot possess complete intelligence.
If their intelligence were complete, they would recognize the corruption of the path they are following.
Chaos Makes the Human Being Unimportant
Here we arrive at a conclusion of great importance.
When chaos rises, the human being becomes unimportant.
Imagine a society in which widespread political or civil chaos erupts: killing becomes permissible, crime becomes permissible, and power and money become the standards of influence, while the human being becomes someone who can be killed for any reason.
In a state of chaos, the individual no longer matters.
For this reason, the Creator's message, according to this conception, calls humanity toward peace and provides guidance that helps achieve it.
Among these principles is that human beings should not assist the corrupt, should not grant legitimacy to corruption, and should prevent corruption at its beginning before it grows.
For once chaos grows, it does not distinguish between the righteous and the corrupt.
When turmoil awakens, it burns everyone.
Therefore, extinguishing corruption at its beginning is not merely a defense of morality; it is a defense of the importance of the human being himself.
Because when corruption is allowed to grow, it strips everyone of their importance.
Power becomes the standard, money becomes the standard, chaos becomes the standard, and the human being no longer possesses an independent value.
The Triumph of the Perfect Human Project
If the project of the Perfect Human Being is a project supported by the Creator, then its ultimate outcome will be victory over the opposing project.
The Creator, as the universal center, does not grant legitimacy to the corrupt.
Legitimacy here means that corruption becomes the norm while righteousness becomes the exception.
But this cannot be the final outcome, because the Creator will not strip the Perfect Human Being of legitimacy merely because the corrupt have attempted to gain control.
Therefore, the project of the Perfect Human Being will remain supported because it is founded upon righteousness, perfection, value, and wisdom.
As for projects outside this project, they do not receive the same divine support.
Thus, their projects become chaotic, lacking the order and wisdom necessary for continuation.
The Creator does not share His complete wisdom with the corrupt, because the corrupt would use it for corruption.
The Return to the Axis
From here we can understand the overall picture that brings all these ideas together.
There is a message between the Creator and the creature.
There is a Perfect Messenger who mediates its transmission.
There is a project of the Perfect Human Being.
There is a return of humanity to its original centrality.
There is an end to chaos and turmoil.
There is a return of the orbits to their axis.
There is the expulsion of those who have been banished to their place of banishment, and the rebuilding of the barrier that prevents them from returning to the Earth.
These are not separate ideas; they are parts of a single system.
Therefore, understanding one point should lead to understanding the others, because the relationship between them is one of order and interconnectedness.
The Human Being Is Not a Speck in Space
This brings us to another matter that deserves attention: the idea that the human being is merely a speck in space.
Human beings should not allow themselves to be convinced that they are merely insignificant specks and that their existence represents nothing in this universe.
Ultimately, this conception leads to the very conclusion against which we have been warning: if the human being is merely a speck, then nothing matters.
More dangerously, this conception does not merely strip humanity of its value; it also strips people of their sense of position, importance, and what they possess.
Therefore, the idea that the human being is merely a speck in an infinite space should be regarded as an illusion, rather than as an unquestionable final truth.
Even if we were to hypothetically assume that this conception were true, we would arrive at a major paradox: if the human being is nothing, if the Earth is nothing, and if everything is unimportant, then what makes knowledge of this "truth" itself important?
Why should a human being care about knowing that they are unimportant if the ultimate conclusion is that nothing matters?
Even the person who tells you this truth would, according to their own logic, become unimportant.
Here the contradiction becomes apparent.
If the truth being presented to you leads to the conclusion that humanity is unimportant, the Earth is unimportant, and knowledge itself is unimportant, then what is the benefit of believing it?
Therefore, rejecting this idea is not merely a rejection of information; it is a rejection of the path to which it leads: a path in which everything becomes devoid of value.
The Earth Is Not as It Is Reduced in This Conception
From here, we can briefly say that the Earth is not necessarily as it is sometimes portrayed to humanity.
The Earth is greater than one might think.
The purpose here is not to enter into every detail or turn the discussion into a battle over every individual point, but rather to indicate that the image that reduces the Earth to merely a wandering point in an infinite space is not necessarily an image that humanity should accept without reflection.
According to the conception being presented, the Earth is extremely vast, and the known Earth represents a center within this larger Earth.
The closer one approaches the axis, the more moderate and suitable the environment becomes for life; the farther one moves from the axis, the greater the disturbances become and the more the environment deteriorates.
And when the environment is disturbed, the creatures living within it are disturbed as well.
This idea does not require us here to enter into all its details; it is enough to establish it as part of the conception that leads us to understand the relationship between the axis, the environment, and humanity.
Do Not Turn Doubt into a Creed
The problem is not questioning, searching, or even temporary doubt.
The problem begins when doubt becomes a permanent creed, and certainty itself becomes something rejected.
A seeker of truth should search for certainty, rather than make doubt their ultimate destination.
Therefore, the person who seeks only to deny everything and is concerned only with eliminating every possibility will never reach the truth, because they are not actually searching for truth; they are searching for the continuation of doubt.
But the person who searches for a glimpse of truth, reflects, and connects things together can move from doubt to understanding, and from understanding to certainty.
Conclusion: From Doubt to Certainty, and from Chaos to the Axis
We can now bring the entire thread together.
We began with doubt: a universe left open to endless assumptions about the Source will not give humanity certainty.
Then we moved to the identity of the Source: the Source is not an abstract idea without a name, identity, or characteristics; rather, it possesses essence, particularity, boundaries, and names.
Then we arrived at the message: the existence of a message between the Creator and humanity means that there is a relationship, and that humanity is important enough to receive an address from the Source.
Then we moved to the Perfect Human Being and the Messenger: the messenger is the intermediary through whom the message is transmitted from the Creator to the creature, while the message itself is the intermediary of the relationship between the Source and what proceeds from it.
Then we arrived at distinction: human beings are distinguished by their ability to know the Creator and distinguish Him from everything else, while the Creator is the Source of every value and every quality of perfection.
Then appeared the project of the Perfect Human Being in contrast with the project of the corrupt human being: goodness finds its way toward completion, while evil does not receive the support necessary for its completion.
Then we understood chaos: when chaos takes over, the human being becomes unimportant, and power, money, and violence become the standards. Therefore, extinguishing turmoil and corruption becomes necessary to protect human value.
Finally, we arrive at the axis: the return of humanity to its original centrality, the return of the orbits to their axis, the end of chaos, and the rebuilding of the boundaries that prevent corruption from reoccupying the domain from which it was expelled.
Therefore, these ideas should not be read as separate sentences, but as an interconnected system.
From doubt to certainty.
From abstraction to identity.
From separation to the message.
From error to guidance.
From chaos to order.
From the margins to the center.
From wandering to the axis.
And this is the thread that should remain present as we continue the search: the human being is not a meaningless speck, existence is not a meaningless chaos, and the message is not speech without purpose; rather, behind this entire relationship lies a system that must be understood, with its parts connected to one another.
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