The treatment ordered by wise physicians of the past, and by
those that follow after, is not one and the same, rather doth it depend on what
aileth the patient; and although the remedy may change, the aim is always to bring
the patient back to health. In the dispensations gone before, the feeble body
of the world could not withstand a rigorous or powerful cure. For this reason
did Christ say: ‘I have yet many things to say unto you, matters needing to be
told, but ye cannot bear to hear them now. Howbeit when that Comforting Spirit,
Whom the Father will send, shall come, He will make plain unto you the truth.’
[1]
Therefore, in this age of splendours, teachings once limited
to the few are made available to all, that the mercy of the Lord may embrace
both east and west, that the oneness of the world of humanity may appear in its
full beauty, and that the dazzling rays of reality may flood the realm of the
mind with light.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Selections
from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha)
[1] cf. John 15:26; 16:12–13
