God Arises
Affirmation of Prophethood
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distances. The male cricket rubs its wings together
to produce a sound which, in the silence of the
night, can be heard half a mile away, vibrating 600
tons of air in the process. This is how the cricket
calls its mate. The female answers in some
mysterious ‘soundless’ way, yet the male receives
this signal and sets off unerringly to join his mate. It
has been discovered that the auditory ability of the
common grasshopper is so refined as to be able to
detect even the slightest movements of the radicals
of a hydrogen atom.
There are innumerable examples of this kind which
show that invisible and inaudible means of
communication do exist, being perceptible only to
creatures whose sensory abilities are more highly
developed than man’s. In view of our acceptance of
such natural phenomena, there should be no great
element of mystery in someone claiming that he
receives messages from God which are not heard by
ordinary people. When there are voices which only
mechanical devices can detect and record, and
messages are transmitted which are picked up only
by animals with specially developed sensory
perception, why should it appear strange that God
