“Know of a certainty,” Bahá’u’lláh explains in this connection, “that in
every Dispensation the light of Divine Revelation hath been vouchsafed to
men in direct proportion to their spiritual capacity. Consider the sun.
How feeble its rays the moment it appeareth above the horizon. How
gradually its warmth and potency increase as it approacheth its zenith,
enabling meanwhile all created things to adapt themselves to the growing
intensity of its light. How steadily it declineth until it reacheth its
setting point. Were it all of a sudden to manifest the energies latent
within it, it would no doubt cause injury to all created things... In like
manner, if the Sun of Truth were suddenly to reveal, at the earliest
stages of its manifestation, the full measure of the potencies which the
providence of the Almighty hath bestowed upon it, the earth of human
understanding would waste away and be consumed; for men’s hearts would
neither sustain the intensity of its revelation, nor be able to mirror
forth the radiance of its light. Dismayed and overpowered, they would
cease to exist.”
In the light of these clear and conclusive statements it is our clear duty
to make it indubitably evident to every seeker after truth that from “the
beginning that hath no beginning” the Prophets of the one, the unknowable
God, including Bahá’u’lláh Himself, have all, as the channels of God’s
grace, as the exponents of His unity, as the mirrors of His light and the
revealers of His purpose, been commissioned to unfold to mankind an
ever-increasing measure of His truth, of His inscrutable will and Divine
guidance, and will continue to “the end that hath no end” to vouchsafe
still fuller and mightier revelations of His limitless power and glory.
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