Man has always been aware of a mysterious Power in the universe. Sometimes he has identified this Power with things he could see but knew little about, like the sun and stars; sometimes he has thought of the Mystery as an invisible person or a group of individuals very much like himself but with greater powers; at other times he has had more abstract and complicated ideas about the First Cause through which Creation has come into being and whose presence he has instinctively felt or rationally reasoned. People living in different parts of the world have not agreed on what this Mystery is, but on one point they are united: that such a Mystery exists.

Baha’u’llah teaches that men throughout the ages have sought after the same Reality though their understanding of it has been different. They have used different names and worshipped in different ways; but they are, in truth, fellow-believers in this mysterious Power which is greater than themselves.

© Source: The Baha'i Faith by Gloria Faizi.  Reprinted with permission.

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