Thou didst write as to the question of spiritual
discoveries. The spirit of man is a circumambient power that encompasseth the
realities of all things. Whatsoever thou dost see about thee—wondrous products
of human workmanship, inventions, discoveries and like evidences—each one of
these was once a secret hidden away in the realm of the unknown. The human
spirit laid that secret bare, and drew it forth from the unseen into the
visible world. There is, for example, the power of steam, and photography and
the phonograph, and wireless telegraphy, and advances in mathematics: each and
every one of these was once a mystery, a closely guarded secret, yet the human
spirit unravelled these secrets and brought them out of the invisible into the
light of day. Thus is it clear that the human spirit is an all-encompassing
power that exerteth its dominion over the inner essences of all created things,
uncovering the well kept mysteries of the phenomenal world.
The divine spirit, however, doth unveil divine realities and
universal mysteries that lie within the spiritual world. It is my hope that
thou wilt attain unto this divine spirit, so that thou mayest uncover the
secrets of the other world, as well as the mysteries of the world below.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
