Advance Introduction to Paradise

strong, but he cannot change the compulsory law of death. Man can accumulate all sorts of pleasures and luxuries, but he cannot put an end to their limitations when deriving pleasure from them. Man can collect all kinds of objects of comfort, but he cannot change the law according to which man is susceptible to illness and accidents. This experience proves that what is in man’s control is only action, not the results of his actions. Man has the freedom to act but he cannot perform the actions needed to build a new, ideal world. Only God, the Creator, can create a world. In such a situation, a person who engages in actions in the hope of thereby building an ideal world for himself in this world is only giving evidence of being unrealistic, and it is a fact that no positive result can be produced through unrealistic thinking. If we keep this before us and reflect, we may realise that man should be willing to accept a fundamental division between himself and the Creator. He should recognise that engaging in action is man’s domain