Third matter:

The universe can be resurrected, for as proved in the Second Fundamental, Divine Power is not defective. Moreover, there is a strong necessity for it and it is possible. If there is a strong necessity that something possible should occur, it comes to be regarded as something that will occur.

Another significant point: A close examination of what occurs in the universe shows that it contains opposites that have spread everywhere and become rooted. The results of their clashes account for good and evil, benefit and harm, perfection and defect, light and darkness, guidance and misguidance, belief and unbelief, obedience and rebellion, and fear and love. Such ongoing conflict causes the universe to manifest a continuous alteration and transformation in order to produce the elements of a new world.

These opposed elements eventually will lead to eternity in two different directions and materialize as Paradise and Hell. The eternal world will be made up of this transitory world's essential elements, which will be given permanence. Paradise and Hell are the two opposite fruits growing on the Tree of Creation's two branches, the two results of the chain of creation, the two cisterns being filled by the two streams of things and events, the two poles to which beings flow in waves, and the places where Divine Grace and Divine Wrath manifest themselves. They will be filled with their particular inhabitants when Divine Power shakes up the universe.

This point is significant because God, the Eternal All-Wise and as the requirement of His Eternal Grace and Wisdom, has created this world as a testing arena, a mirror to reflect His Beautiful Names, a vast page upon which to write with the Pen of His Destiny and Power. People are tested here to develop their potentialities and to manifest their abilities. This emergence of abilities causes relative truths to appear in the universe, which, in turn, causes the Majestic Maker's Beautiful Names to manifest their inscriptions and make the universe a missive of the Eternally-Besought-of-All. In addition, this testing separates the diamond-like essences of sublime souls from the coal-like matter of base ones.

For His Own sublime purposes, God willed that creation, as well as its change and alteration, should take place. He made opposites confront one another—mingling harm with benefit, evil with good, and ugliness with beauty. Kneading them together like dough, He subjected the universe to the law of alteration and the principle of perfection. One day this testing and trial will end, and the Pen of Divine Destiny will have written what it has to write. Divine Power will have completed its work, all creatures will have fulfilled their duties and services, and seeds will have been sown in the field of the afterlife. The Earth will have displayed Divine Power's miracles, and this transitory world will have hung all eternal scenes upon the picture-rail of time.

The Majestic Maker's eternal Wisdom and Favor will require that the test's results be announced and that the truths of the Divine Beautiful Names' manifestations and the Pen of Divine Destiny's missives be unveiled. The duties performed by creatures will be repaid, the truths of the meanings expressed by the Book of the Universe's words will be seen, the fruits of potentialities will be yielded, a supreme court will be established, and the veil of natural causes will be removed so that everything is submitted directly to the Divine Will and Power.

On that day, the Majestic Creator will destroy the universe in order to eternalize it and separate its opposites. This separation will cause Hell to appear with all its awfulness, and Paradise to appear with all its beauty and splendor. The people of Hell will be threatened with: Now keep yourselves apart, you sinners, upon this day (36:59), while the People of Paradise will be welcomed with: Peace be upon you. Well you have fared; enter in, to dwell forever (39:73). By means of His perfect Power, the Eternal All-Wise will give an everlasting, unchanging existence to the inhabitants of both dwelling places. They will not age or suffer bodily disintegration or decomposition, for there will be nothing to cause any change.