The Purpose of the Creation of Man

"All men have been created to carry forward an ever-advancing civilization."

~ Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, CIX, p. 215

The Beauty of the Revelation of Baha'u'llah

"Consider these days in which He Who is the Ancient Beauty hath come in the Most Great Name, that He may quicken the world and unite its peoples."

~ Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 63


And further We have said: "Doth it behoove you to relate yourselves to Him Who is the God of mercy, and yet commit the things which the Evil One hath committed? Nay, by the Beauty of Him Who is the All-Glorified! could ye but know it. Purge your hearts from love of the world, and your tongues from calumny, and your limbs from whatsoever may withhold you from drawing nigh unto God, the Mighty, the All-Praised.

~ Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 54


Turning Our face to the right, We beheld what the pen is powerless to describe; nor can it set forth that which the eye of the Lord of Mankind witnessed in that most sanctified, that most sublime, that blest, and most exalted Spot. Turning, then, to the left We gazed on one of the Beauties of the Most Sublime Paradise, standing on a pillar of light, and calling aloud saying: 'O inmates of earth and heaven! Behold ye My beauty, and My radiance, and My revelation, and My effulgence. By God, the True One! I am Trustworthiness and the revelation thereof, and the beauty thereof.

~ Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 136