We must use the Writings of the Prophets as our measurement.
If Bahá'u'lláh had attached the slightest importance to occult experiences, to
the seeing of auras, to the hearing of mystic voices; if He had believed that
reincarnation was a fact, He, Himself, would have mentioned all of these things
in His Teachings. The fact that He passed over them in silence shows that to
Him, they had either no importance or no reality, and were consequently not
worthy to take up His time as the Divine Educator of the human race.
We must turn our faces away from these things, and toward
the actual practice of His Teachings in our everyday life through our Bahá'í
Administration, and in our contact with other people and the examples we give.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 22 April 1954 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an
individual believer; compilation: ‘African religions; miracles; strange
phenomena’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of
Justice, 6 August 1996)
