“… while you meditate you are speaking with your own spirit. In that state of mind you put certain questions to your spirit and the spirit answers: the light breaks forth and the reality is revealed… The spirit of man is itself informed and strengthened during meditation; through it affairs of which man knew nothing are unfolded before his view…
“Meditation is the key for opening the doors of mysteries. In that state man abstracts himself; in that state man withdraws himself from all outside objects; in that subjective mood he is immersed in the ocean of spiritual life and can unfold the secrets of things-in-themselves. To illustrate this, think of man as endowed with two kinds of sight; when the power of insight is being used the outward power of vision does not see.
This faculty of meditation frees man from the animal nature, discerns the reality of things…
The meditative faculty is akin to the mirror: if you put if before earthly objects it will reflect them. Therefore if the spirit of man is contemplating earthly subjects he will be informed of these.
“But if you turn the mirror of your spirits heavenwards, the heavenly constellations and the rays of the Sun of Reality will be reflected in your hearts, and the virtues of the Kingdom will be obtained.”
~ Abdu’l-Baha, Paris Talks, pp. 174-6
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