The Sun of Truth
hath shone faith from the Horizon of Unity upon all the regions. All contingent
things are clad with the garment of existence through the rays of the sun. Were
it not for the rays of the sun no being would step forth upon the arena of
life. Everything would have remained hidden; nay, rather, the life of the
terrestrial beings is continued through the light and heat of the sun to such
an extant that all the infinitesimal atoms, which move through this realm of
earth, owe their life to the reflection of the sun. Of course, each being
manifests its inward tendencies according to its ability and capacity. However,
no matter how much the sun reflects itself through all the contingent beings,
yet it never leaves its supreme height and exalted station. It (the Divine Sun)
is not divided among these beings, so that every being may became a part and a
portion of Divinity.
Descent, division,
transmission and transmigration in the stations of life are the conditions of
the contingent beings, but the Eternal Reality is wholly beyond and above these
conditions; for when you behold that a being is subject to division, descent
and disintegration, this is a proof of the contingency and impermanency of that
being. The Ancient, the Ever-living, and the omniscient Lord, who is above the
comprehension of humanity and is qualified with self-existent perfections, will
never descend to the stations of life, and will not be divided so that every
man may become an atom or a part of Him. Children can understand the
untenability of this proposition. This is the pure imagination of the weak
minds.
- 'Abdu'l-Bahá (From a
Tablet; Star of the West, vol. 2, nos. 7 & 8, August 1, 1911)
