… the first bestowal of God is the Word, and its discoverer
and recipient is the power of understanding. This Word is the foremost
instructor in the school of existence and the revealer of Him Who is the
Almighty. All that is seen is visible only through the light of its wisdom. All
that is manifest is but a token of its knowledge. All names are but its name,
and the beginning and end of all matters must needs depend upon it. - Baha’u’llah (‘The Tabernacle of Unity, Bahá’u’lláh’s Responses to Mánikchí Sáḥib
and Other Writings’)
