… [since] only those who are initiated into the divine
mysteries can comprehend the melodies uttered by the Bird of Heaven, it is
therefore incumbent upon every one to seek enlightenment from the illumined in
heart and from the Treasuries of divine mysteries regarding the intricacies of
God’s Faith and the abstruse allusions in the utterances of the Day-springs of
Holiness. Thus will these mysteries be unravelled, not by the aid of acquired
learning, but solely through the assistance of God and the outpourings of His
grace. “Ask ye, therefore, of them that have the custody of the Scriptures, if
ye know it not.” (Qur’an 16:43)
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
