[Question:] Is the Divine Manifestation, God?
[Answer by ‘Abdu’l-Baha:] Yes, and yet not in Essence. A
Divine Manifestation is as a mirror reflecting the light of the Sun. The light
is the same and yet the mirror is not the Sun. All the Manifestations of God
bring the same Light; they only differ in degree, not in reality. The Truth is
one. The light is the same though the lamps may be different; we must look at
the Light not at the Lamp. If we accept the Light in one, we must accept the
Light in all; all agree, because all are the same. The teaching is ever the
same, it is only the outward forms that change.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Notes of conversations; ‘Abdu’l-Baha in London’)
