Someone wished to know if it were a good custom to wear a
symbol, as, for instance, a cross. He said:
“You wear the cross for
remembrance, it concentrates your thoughts; it has no magical power. Bahá’ís
often wear a stone with the greatest name engraved on it: there is no magical
influence in the stone; it is a reminder, and companion. If you are about to do
some selfish or hasty action, and your glance falls on the ring on your hand,
you will remember and change your intention.”
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Notes of
conversations; ‘Abdu’l-Baha in London’)
