Humanity consists of the spiritual reality, and that reality
is penetrative in all things and it is that reality which discovers the
invisible mysteries, and through that reality all sciences, arts and inventions
become known and manifest. Whatever thou
beholdest of the works of man is but a faint ray of that reality. It encircles
all things and comprehends all things.
Reflect thou, that all these existent sciences, crafts,
industries and arts were at one time in the world of invisibility, unknown and
unconcealed mysteries. As the spirit of man environs all things, therefore he
has discovered them and brought them from the unknown world into the arena of
manifestation. Therefore it is evident and established that the human spirit is
the discoverer of things, the seer of things and the comprehender of things.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet to Ella Goodall Cooper; Star of the West, vol. 2, no. 15,
December 12, 1911)
(To read the entire Tablet please visit Tablets of
‘Abdu’l-Baha in Star of the West)
