The
progress of the world of humanity dependeth upon knowledge, and its decline is
due to ignorance. When the human race gaineth in knowledge it becometh
heavenly, and when it acquireth learning it taketh on lordly attributes.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Quoted by the Universal
House of Justice in a letter dated 17 January 2011 addressed to the Believers
in the Cradle of the Faith)
