Wert thou to ponder in thine heart, from now until the end
that hath no end, and with all the concentrated intelligence and understanding
which the greatest minds have attained in the past or will attain in the
future, this divinely ordained and subtle Reality [the rational faculty in a
human being], this sign of the revelation of the All-Abiding, All-Glorious God,
thou wilt fail to comprehend its mystery or to appraise its virtue. Having
recognized thy powerlessness to attain to an adequate understanding of that
Reality which abideth within thee, thou wilt readily admit the futility of such
efforts as may be attempted by thee, or by any of the created things, to fathom
the mystery of the Living God, the Day Star of unfading glory, the Ancient of
everlasting days. This confession of helplessness which mature contemplation
must eventually impel every mind to make is in itself the acme of human
understanding, and marketh the culmination of man’s development.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
