[Baha’u’llah and the New Era by J.E. Esslemont]@TWC D-Link bookBaha’u’llah and the New Era CHAPTER 12: RELIGION AND SCIENCE 9/28
This is what is meant by the search after truth. It also means that we must be willing to clear away all that we have previously learned, all that would clog our steps on the way to Truth; we must not shrink, if necessary, from beginning our education all over again.
We must not allow our love for any one religion or any one personality so to blind our eyes that we become fettered by superstition.
When we are freed from all these bonds, seeking with liberal minds, then shall we be able to arrive at our goal. The Agnosticism The Baha'i teaching is at one with science and philosophy in declaring the essential nature of God to be entirely beyond human comprehension.
As emphatically as Thomas Huxley and Herbert Spencer teach that the nature of the Great First Cause is unknowable, does Baha'u'llah teach that "God comprehends all; He cannot be comprehended." To knowledge of the Divine essence "the way is barred and road is impassable," for how can the finite comprehend the Infinite; how can a drop contain the ocean or a mote dancing in the sunbeam embrace the universe? Yet the whole universe is eloquent of God.
In each drop of water are hidden oceans of meaning, and in each mote is concealed a whole universe of significances, reaching far beyond the ken of the most learned scientist.
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