From: Talks of ‘Abdu’l-Baha
St. John's, Westminster, England
September 17th, 1911
O Nobel Friends! O Seekers for the Kingdom of God! Man all over the world
is seeking for God. All that exists is God; but the Reality of Divinity is holy
above all understanding.
The pictures of Divinity that come to our mind are the product of our fancy;
they exist in the realm of our imagination. They are not adequate to the Truth;
truth in its essence cannot be put into words.
Divinity cannot by comprehended because it is comprehending.
Man, who has also a real existence, is comprehended by God; therefore, the
Divinity which man can understand is partial; it is not complete. Divinity is
actual Truth and real existence, and not any representation of it. Divinity
itself contains All, and is not contained.
Although the mineral, vegetable, animal and man all have actual being, yet the
mineral has no knowledge of the vegetable. It cannot apprehend it. It cannot
imagine nor understand it.
