ellect which gives us knowledge
and understanding, and without this light the physical eyes would be
useless.

This light of the intellect is the highest light that exists, for it is
born of the Light Divine.

The light of the intellect enables us to understand and realize all that
exists, but it is only the Divine Light that can give us sight for the
invisible things, and which enables us to see truths that will only be
visible to the world thousands of years hence.

It was the Divine Light which enabled the prophets to see two thousand
years in advance what was going to take place and today we see the
realization of their vision. Thus it is this Light which we must strive to
seek, for it is greater than any other.

It was by this Light that Moses was enabled to see and comprehend the
Divine Appearance, and to hear the Heavenly Voice which spoke to him from
the Burning Bush.(6)

It is of this Light Muhammad is speaking when he says, 'Allah is the light
of the Heavens, and of the Earth'.

Seek with all your hearts this Heavenly Light, so that you may be enabled
to understand the realities, that you may know the secret things of God,
that the hidden ways may be made plain before your eyes.

This light may be likened unto a mirror, and as a mirror reflects all that
is before it, so this Light shows to the eyes of our spirits all that
exists in God's Kingdom and causes the realities of things to be made
visible. By the help of this effulgent Light all the spiritual
interpretation of the Holy Writings has been made plain, the hidden things
of God's Universe have become manifest, and we have been enabled to
comprehend the Divine purposes for man.

I pray that God in His mercy may illumine your hearts and souls with His
glorious Light, then shall each one of you shine as a radiant star in the
dark places of the world.

SPIRITUAL ASPIRATION IN THE WEST

'Abdu'l-Baha said:

You are very welcome! From Eastern lands I have come to the West to
sojourn awhile among you. In the East it is often said that the people of
the West are without spirituality, but I have not found it thus. Thank
God, I see and feel that there is much spiritual aspiration among the
Western peoples, and that in some cases their spiritual perception is even
keener than among their Eastern brothers. If the teaching given in the
East had been conscientiously spread in the West the world today would be
a more enlightened place.

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