nt in the horizon it
may arise. You will realize that if the Divine Light of Truth
shone in Jesus Christ, it also shone in Moses and Buddha. 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. The chemist and physicist
pursuing their researches into the nature of matter have passed from
masses to molecules, from molecules to atoms, from atoms to electrons and
ether, but at every step the difficulties of the research increase till
the most profound intellect can penetrate no farther, and can but bow in
silent awe before the unknown Infinite which remains ever shrouded in
inscrutable mystery.

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies.

I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower--but if I
could understand

What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God
and man is.--TENNYSON.

If the flower in the crannied wall, if even a single atom of matter,
present mysteries which the most profound intellect cannot solve, how is
it possible for man to comprehend the universe? How dare he pretend to
define or describe the Infinite cause of all things? All theological
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