Tuesday, November 20, 2007

"...the mysteries of divine knowledge..."

Today's quote uses three other Spiritual Metaphors for God's Manifestations: "...the Wellspring of His knowledge, the Heaven of His wisdom, and the Ark of His mysteries..."

Other Writings show that the Manifestation--the Word of God--has, associated with His soul, the same Creative Energies that brought the Universe into existence. They are helping us from the inside-out and we are usually quit unaware of how much we depend on Their Power to sustain us:

"Shouldst thou desire to apprehend these celestial allusions, to witness the mysteries of divine knowledge, and to become acquainted with His all-encompassing Word, then it behoveth thine eminence to inquire into these and other questions pertaining to thine origin and ultimate goal from those whom God hath made to be the Wellspring of His knowledge, the Heaven of His wisdom, and the Ark of His mysteries. For were it not for those effulgent Lights that shine above the horizon of His Essence, the people would know not their left hand from their right, how much less could they scale the heights of the inner realities or probe the depths of their subtleties!"

Bahá’u’lláh: Gems of Divine Mysteries, paragraph 17, pp. 14-15

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