In the Old Testament we read that God said, ‘Let us make man
in Our own image’. In the Gospel, Christ said, ‘I am in the Father, and the
Father in Me’. [John xiv, II] In the
Qur’án, God says, ‘Man is my Mystery and I am his’. Bahá’u’lláh writes that God
says, ‘Thy heart is My home; purify it for My descent. Thy spirit is My place
of revelation; cleanse it for My manifestation’.
All these sacred words show us that man is made in God’s
image: yet the Essence of God is incomprehensible to the human mind, for the
finite understanding cannot be applied to this infinite Mystery. God contains
all: He cannot be contained. That which contains is superior to that which is
contained. The whole is greater than its parts.
Things which are understood by men cannot be outside their
capacity for understanding, so that it is impossible for the heart of man to
comprehend the nature of the Majesty of God. Our imagination can only picture
that which it is able to create. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, October 20, 1911,
Paris)
