And now, concerning thy question regarding the creation of
man. Know thou that all men have been created in the nature made by God, the
Guardian, the Self-Subsisting. Unto each one hath been prescribed a
pre-ordained measure, as decreed in God’s mighty and guarded Tablets. All that
which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of
your own volition.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
