Beware lest human learning debar thee from Him Who is the
Supreme Object of all knowledge, or lest the world deter thee from the One Who
created it and set it upon its course. Arise in the name of thy Lord, the God
of Mercy, amidst the peoples of the earth, and seize thou the Cup of Life with
the hands of confidence. First drink
thou therefrom, and proffer it then to such as turn towards it amongst the
peoples of all faiths. Thus hath the Moon of Utterance risen above the horizon
of wisdom and understanding.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Pope
Pius IX, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
