s to the Source of Light, from
that central Light the mysteries of the Kingdom were reflected in the
hearts of these people. All the Divine problems were solved by this power
of illumination.

This Society of Friends increased greatly in Persia, and up to the present
time their societies exist. Many books and epistles were written by their
leaders. When they assemble in their meeting-house they sit silently and
contemplate; their leader opens with a certain proposition, and says to
the assembly 'You must meditate on this problem'. Then, freeing their
minds from everything else, they sit and reflect, and before long the
answer is revealed to them. Many abstruse divine questions are solved by
this illumination.

Some of the great questions unfolding from the rays of the Sun of Reality
upon the mind of man are: the problem of the reality of the spirit of man;
of the birth of the spirit; of its birth from this world into the world of
God; the question of the inner life of the spirit and of its fate after
its ascension from the body.

They also meditate upon the scientific questions of the day, and these are
likewise solved.

These people, who are called 'Followers of the inner light', attain to a
superlative degree of power, and are entirely freed from blind dogmas and
imitations. Men rely on the statements of these people: by
themselves--within themselves--they solve all mysteries.

If they find a solution with the assistance of the inner light, they
accept it, and afterwards they declare it: otherwise they would consider
it a matter of blind imitation. They go so far as to reflect upon the
essential nature of the Divinity, of the Divine revelation, of the
manifestation of the Deity in this world. All the divine and scientific
questions are solved by them through the power of the spirit.

Baha'u'llah says there is a sign (from God) in every phenomenon: the sign
of the intellect is contemplation and the sign of contemplation is
silence, because it is impossible for a man to do two things at one
time--he cannot both speak and meditate.

It is an axiomatic fact that while you meditate you are speaking with your
own spirit. In that state of mind you put certain questions to your spirit
and the spirit answers: the light breaks forth and the reality is
revealed.

You cannot apply the name 'man' to any being void of this faculty of
meditation; without it he would be a mere animal, lower than the beasts.

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