g from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 265.

In the same way, 'Abdu'l-Baha declares:--

When man allows the spirit, through his soul, to enlighten his
understanding, then does he contain all creation.... But on the
other hand, when man does not open his mind and heart to the
blessing of the spirit, but turns his soul towards the material
side, towards the bodily part of his nature, then his he fallen
from his high place and he becomes inferior to the inhabitants of
the lower animal kingdom.

Again, Baha'u'llah writes:--

Deliver your souls, O people, from the bondage of self, and purify
them from all attachment to anything besides Me. Remembrance of Me
cleanseth all things from defilement, could ye but perceive it....

Intone, O My servant, the verses of God that have been received by
thee, ... that the sweetness of thy melody may kindle thine own
soul, and attract the hearts of all men. Whoso reciteth, in the
privacy of his chamber, the verses revealed by God, the scattering
angels of the Almighty shall scatter abroad the fragrance of the
words uttered by his mouth....--Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha'u'llah, pp. 294-295.

Necessity for a Mediator

According to 'Abdu'l-Baha:--

A mediator is necessary between man and the Creator--one who
receives the full light of the Divine Splendor and radiates it
over the human world, as the earth's atmosphere receives and
diffuses the warmth of the sun's rays.

If we wish to pray, we must have some object on which to
concentrate. If we turn to God, we must direct our hearts to a
certain center. If man worships God otherwise than through His
Manifestation, he must first form a conception of God, and that
conception is created by his own mind. As the finite cannot
comprehend the Infinite, so God is not to be comprehended in this
fashion. That which man conceives with his own mind he
comprehends. That which he can comprehend is not God. That
conception of God which a man forms for himself is but a phantasm,
an image, an imagination, an illusion. There is no connection
between such a conception and the Supreme Being.

If a man wishes to know God, he must find Him in the perfect
mirror, Christ or Baha'u'llah. In either of these mirrors he will
see reflected the Sun of Divinity.

As we know the physical s