Mystics
He would relapse into mysticism, and, wrapt in his reveries, lose sight of the gravity of the emergency that confronted him.
- Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 36
He looks at the cults, worships, mysticisms, ideologies that beset his path. He sees that all is vanity. The shadow of spiritual death lies over the whole wide world. Search as he will, he finds nothing to win the allegiance of his heart and spirit, no hope, no vision that resembles Christ's glorious pattern of the future of redeemed mankind -- till the day when there breaks upon his soul the dawning splendour of the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh.
- George Townshend, The Heart of the Gospel, p. 148
I remember particularly turning to Him apologetically as I made the personal reference to the fact that whereas other Easterners came to America exploiting its people in the name of oriental mysticism, His message bore the living imprint of self-sacrificing love.
- H.M. Balyuzi, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá - The Centre of the Covenant, p. 194
This was especially difficult to accept, since Khan knew from his own experience in Chicago that Asadu'llah had been a cause of division among the believers by promulgating his brand of cloudy mysticism instead of adhering to the Bahá’í Teachings.
- Marzieh Gail, Arches of the Years, p. 112
Quote of the Day
Jalal 9 Ilm 183 B.E.
As to the question regarding the soul of a murderer, and what his punishment would be, the answer given was that the murderer must expiate his crime: that is, if they put the murderer to death, his death is his atonement for his crime, and following the death, God in His justice will impose no second penalty upon him, for divine justice would not allow this.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 179