The Theosophists are educating a boy in the schools of
Europe and say that he will become the promised one of all nations. How
ignorant this is! God must select the Promised One, not men. The lamp that men
ignite will be put out; but the Lamp of God is ever bright. He who is educated
by men is always dependent on men. How can he give eternal prosperity? It is as
if a person wishes to make a sun out of oil and wick. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, from an
address, July 28, 1912, Dublin, USA; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
