If the sun were to rise in
the West, it would still be the sun; one must not withdraw from it on account
of its rising-place, nor consider the West to be always the place of sunset. In
the same way, one must look for the heavenly bounties and seek for the Divine
Aurora. In every place where it appears, one must become its distracted lover.
Consider that if the Jews had not kept turning to the horizon of Moses, and had
only regarded the Sun of Reality, without any doubt they would have recognized
the Sun in the dawning-place of the reality of Christ, in the greatest divine
splendor. But, alas! a thousand times alas! attaching themselves to the outward
words of Moses, they were deprived of the divine bounties and the lordly
splendors!
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, table talks in Akka, authenticated by
‘Abdu’l-Baha; ‘Some Answered Questions’)
