And if, confirmed by the Creator, the lover escapes from the
claws of the eagle of love, he will enter
The Valley of Knowledge
and come out of doubt into certitude, and turn from the
darkness of illusion to the guiding light of the fear of God. His inner eyes
will open and he will privily converse with his Beloved; he will set ajar the
gate of truth and piety, and shut the doors of vain imaginings. He in this
station is content with the decree of God, and seeth war as peace, and findeth
in death the secrets of everlasting life. With inward and outward eyes he
witnesseth the mysteries of resurrection in the realms of creation and the
souls of men, and with a pure heart apprehendeth the divine wisdom in the
endless Manifestations of God. In the ocean he findeth a drop, in a drop he
beholdeth the secrets of the sea.
Split the atom’s heart, and lo!
Within it thou wilt find a sun. [Qur’án 67:3] (Baha’u’llah, ‘The Seven
Valleys’)
