When man allows the spirit, through his soul, to enlighten
his understanding, then does he contain all Creation; because man, being the
culmination of all that went before and thus superior to all previous
evolutions, contains all the lower world within himself. Illumined by the
spirit through the instrumentality of the soul, man’s radiant intelligence
makes him the crowning-point of Creation.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, November
17, 1911, Paris; ‘Paris Talks’)
