eed in entering that way
than in the past, it will not be because of any widening of the gate, but
because of a greater disposition on the part of men to make the "great
surrender" which God demands; because long and bitter experience has at
last brought them to see the folly of choosing their own way instead of
God's way.

Search After Truth

Baha'u'llah enjoins justice on all His followers and defines it as:--"The
freedom of man from superstition and imitation, so that he may discern the
Manifestations of God with the eyes of Oneness, and consider all affairs
with keen sight."--Words of Wisdom.

It is necessary that each individual should see and realize for himself
the Glory of God manifest in the human temple of Baha'u'llah, otherwise
the Baha'i faith would be for him but a name without meaning. The call of
the Prophets to mankind has always been that men should open their eyes,
not shut them, use their reason, not suppress it. It is clear seeing and
free thinking, not servile credulity, that will enable them to penetrate
the clouds of prejudice, to shake off the fetters of blind imitation, and
attain to the realization of the truth of a new Revelation.

He who would be a Baha'i needs to be a fearless seeker after truth, but he
should not confine his search to the material plane. His spiritual
perceptive powers should be awake as well as his physical. He should use
all the faculties God has given him for the acquisition of truth,
believing nothing without valid and sufficient reason. If his heart is
pure, and his mind free from prejudice, the earnest seeker will not fail
to recognize the Divine Glory in whatsoever temple it may become manifest.
Baha'u'llah further declares:--

Man should know his own self, and know those things that lead to
loftiness or to baseness, to shame or to honor, to wealth or to
poverty.--Tablet of Tarazat.

The source of all learning is the knowledge of God, exalted be His
Glory! and this cannot be attained save through the knowledge of
His divine Manifestation.--Words of Wisdom.

The Manifestation is the Perfect Man, the great Exemplar for Mankind, the
First Fruit of the tree of humanity. Until we know Him we do not know the
latent possibilities within ourselves. Christ tells us to consider the
lilies how they grow, and declares that Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these. The lily grows from a very unattractive-looking
bulb