It was the Divine Light which enabled the prophets to see
two thousand years in advance what was going to take place and today we see the
realization of their vision. Thus it is this Light which we must strive to
seek, for it is greater than any other. It was by this Light that Moses was
enabled to see and comprehend the Divine Appearance, and to hear the Heavenly
Voice which spoke to him from the Burning Bush. It is of this Light Muhammad is
speaking when he says, ‘Alláh is the light of the Heavens, and of the Earth’.
Seek with all your hearts this Heavenly Light, so that you may be enabled to
understand the realities, that you may know the secret things of God, that the
hidden ways may be made plain before your eyes.
This light may be likened unto a mirror, and as a mirror
reflects all that is before it, so this Light shows to the eyes of our spirits
all that exists in God’s Kingdom and causes the realities of things to be made
visible. By the help of this effulgent Light all the spiritual interpretation
of the Holy Writings has been made plain, the hidden things of God’s Universe
have become manifest, and we have been enabled to comprehend the Divine
purposes for man.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, Paris, November 5, 1911, ‘Paris
Talks’)
