The
entire creation hath been called into being through the Will of God, magnified
be His glory, and peerless Adam hath been fashioned through the agency of His
all-compelling Word, a Word which is the source, the wellspring, the
repository, and the dawning-place of the intellect. From it all creation hath
proceeded, and it is the channel of God’s primal grace. None can grasp the
reality of the origin of creation save God, exalted be His glory, Whose
knowledge embraceth all things both before and after they come into being.
Creation hath neither beginning nor end, and none hath ever unravelled its
mystery. Its knowledge hath ever been, and shall remain, hidden and preserved
with those Who are the Repositories of divine knowledge.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Tabernacle of Unity, Bahá’u’lláh’s
Responses to Mánikchí Sáhib and Other Writings’)
