In this Valley, [the
Valley of True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness] the wayfarer leaveth
behind him the stages of the “oneness of Being and Manifestation” [1] and
reacheth a oneness that is sanctified above these two stations. Ecstasy alone
can encompass this theme, not utterance nor argument; and whosoever hath dwelt
at this stage of the journey, or caught a breath from this garden land, knoweth
whereof We speak.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys’)
[1]
Pantheism, a Súfí doctrine derived from the formula: “Only God exists; He is in
all things, and all things are in Him.”
