Most believeers have failed to heed the admonitions of Baha'u'llah
about the importance of thinking independently and constantlly
searching for truth. As a result they fail to accept God's Chosen
Ones when They appear, usually because they rely on their so called
spiritual leaders, or the thinking of the majority of other believers
in their Faith. Baha'u'llah is quite emphatic of this need to think
for yourself, and to search for Truth independely and
continually.First is the Bab's warning about those who blindly follow
the thinking of others, and then Baha'u'llah's admonition about
independent search for Truth. Warmest regards to all.
Warmest regards to all, Giovanni
"Regard any people. In truth They all believe they are searching for
God...Nevertheless, they all act and have acted against what is
true.Look at the letters of the Psalms (i.e. who rejected Zoroaster),
then the letters of the Bible (i.e. who rejected Christ), then the
letters of the Gospel (i.e. who rejected Muhammad), then the letters
of the Quran (i.e. who rejected the Bab), then the letters of the
Bayan (i.e. who rejected Baha'u'llah), then the letters of the Book of
Him Whom God shall make manifest (i.e. Baha'is who will reject the
next Manifestation). From the highest to the most humble, they all
imagine that they are searching for God's pleasure and that they have
certitude and insight in His Religion; yet all, in the presence of Him
Who will be manifested (the third Letter, or Alif, of the Revelation
of the Greatest Name) after Him Whom God shall manifest (Baha'u'llah)
are like the letters of the previous Books in the presence of the
witnesses of the Bayan." The Bab, in one of His Tablets cited in the
introduction and preface of the Arabic Bayan translation of A.L.M.
Nicolas
"Notwithstanding the divinely-inspired admonitions of all the
Prophets, the saints and the Chosen Ones of God, enjoining the people
to see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears, they have
disdainfully rejected their counsels and have blindly followed and
will continue to follow the leaders of their Faith."
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