And whensoever thou dost gaze upon creation all entire, and
dost observe the very atoms thereof, thou wilt note that the rays of the Sun of
Truth are shed upon all things and shining within them, and telling of that
Day-Star’s splendours, Its mysteries, and the spreading of Its lights. Look thou upon the trees, upon the blossoms and fruits, even
upon the stones. Here too wilt thou behold the Sun’s rays shed upon them,
clearly visible within them, and manifested by them.
Shouldst thou, however, turn thy gaze unto a Mirror,
brilliant, stainless, and pure, wherein the divine Beauty is reflected, therein
wilt thou find the Sun shining with Its rays, Its heat, Its disc, Its fair form
all entire. For each separate entity possesseth its allotted portion of the solar
light and telleth of the Sun, but that Universal Reality in all Its splendour,
that stainless Mirror Whose qualities are appropriate to the qualities of the
Sun revealed within It—expresseth in their entirety the attributes of the
Source of Glory. And that Universal Reality is Man, the divine Being, the
Essence that abideth forever. ‘Say, Call upon God, or call upon the
All-Merciful; whichsoever ye call upon, most beauteous are His Names.’ [Qur’án
17:110]
This is the meaning of the Messiah’s words, that the Father
is in the Son. [John 14:11] (‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
