As this age is a luminous age and this century the century of knowledge, new teachings are necessary, a new effulgence is essential and a new life is needed. The souls cannot accept the ancient ideas, a new thought and new teachings are necessary that shall be the spirit of this age and the light of this century.
Investigate, make a great effort so that the Center of the Light of Reality may be seen in the assembly of the world as a witness of love, and arise with such a power and confirmation that thou mayest shake that country.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; Star of the West, vol. 9, no. 12, October 16, 1918)
