You ask why the Manifestation of God for this day, in other
words, Bahá'u'lláh, has not given all the detailed answers to the theories
advanced by occultists, spiritualists and many of the more abstruse
philosophers of the present day.
It would be absolutely impossible for anyone to answer all
the questions that might be asked by the curious, whether scholars or ordinary
people, on any subject. If the Prophet of God only came to this world in order
to answer people's questions, and elucidate all the "nonsense", for
the most part, that people have gotten together and formed into cults and
philosophies, They would have no time to instruct man by Their example and
through Their Teachings in a new way of life.
We must turn aside from these vain imaginings and
suppositions and philosophizings of the world, and fix our eyes upon the clear
stream of the Teachings of Bahá'u'lláh. Out of these Teachings, and the society
which they will create on this planet, will come a solution to all of the
problems of men. Gradually, greater scholars, more deeply spiritual thinkers,
will be able to answer from a Bahá'í standpoint many of these questions. It is
not necessary that they should be in the divine text; they can be studied and
learned in the future; but at present we have not had time to evolve the Bahá'í
scholars who can deal with these subjects in detail, and take upon themselves
to answer the abstruse points and the many unfounded doctrines which are
advanced by modern philosophers.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated 22 April 1954 written on
behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; included in a message by the
Universal House of Justice dated 5 August 1969)
