First among the great principles revealed by Him
[Baha’u’llah] is that of the investigation of reality. The meaning is that
every individual member of humankind is exhorted and commanded to set aside
superstitious beliefs, traditions and blind imitation of ancestral forms in
religion and investigate reality for himself. Inasmuch as the fundamental
reality is one, all religions and nations of the world will become one through
investigation of reality. The announcement of this principle is not found in
any of the sacred Books of the past.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, November 15,
1912, New York; ‘The Promulgation of Universal Peace’)
