He feels that many of the perplexities that arise in your
mind could be dissipated if you always conceived of the teachings as one great
whole with many facets. Truth may, in covering different subjects, appear to be
contradictory, and yet it is all one if you carry the thought through to the
end....He hopes you will...rest assured inwardly that for these things which
sometimes seem difficult to understand there is usually a quite simple and
reasonable explanation.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 24 February 1947 written on behalf
of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; The Compilation of Compilations,
vol. I, The Importance of Deepening Our Knowledge and Understanding of the
Faith)
