People for the most part delight in superstitions. They
regard a single drop of the sea of delusion as preferable to an ocean of
certitude. By holding fast unto names they deprive themselves of the inner
reality and by clinging to vain imaginings they are kept back from the
Dayspring of heavenly signs. God grant you may be graciously aided under all
conditions to shatter the idols of superstition and to tear away the veils of
the imaginations of men. Authority lieth in the grasp of God, the Fountainhead
of revelation and inspiration and the Lord of the Day of Resurrection.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Words of Paradise’; ‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
