Saturday, November 10, 2012

"How, then, can the reality of man, which is accidental, ever comprehend the Reality of God, which is eternal?




... "How, then, can the reality of man, which is accidental, ever comprehend the Reality of God, which is eternal? It is self-evidently an impossibility. Hence we can observe the traces and attributes of God, which are resplendent in all phenomena and shining as the sun at midday, and know surely that these emanate from an infinite source. We know that they come from a source which is infinite indeed." ...


`Abdu'l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 423 

10 November 1912 
(excerpt from) Talk at Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons 
1700 Eighteenth Street, NW, 
Washington, D. C.

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