What could we do with an improved BASIS for science? (Baha'i for 40 years)
Teleology, Knowledge, its Source
Hidden Words, Persian #29 "Out of the wastes of nothingness, with the clay of My command I made thee to appear, and have ordained for thy training every atom in existence and the essence of all created things."
Gleanings C "The mirror of His knowledge reflecteth, with complete distinctness, precision and fidelity, the doings of all men."
Gleanings LXXXII "Such a soul provideth, at the bidding of the Ideal King and Divine Educator, the pure leaven that leaveneth the world of being, and furnisheth the power through which the arts and wonders of the world are made manifest."
SAQ "... the Kingdom is not a material place; it is sanctified from time and place ... the life of the spirit expresses the existence of the Kingdom ..."
Paris Talks "Therefore let us keep this faculty rightly directed—turning it to the heavenly Sun and not to earthly objects—so that we may discover the secrets of the Kingdom, and comprehend the allegories of the Bible and the mysteries of the spirit."
Ontology/Scientific view
7V4V 1) "The Self of God standing within Him with laws", 7V4V 2) “Men whom neither merchandise nor traffic beguile from the remembrance of God….”, 7V4V 3) "On this plane, neither the reign of reason is sufficient nor the authority of self.", 7V4V 4) "... bottomless sea ... blackest of nights" BUT "O My Servant! Obey Me and I shall make thee like unto Myself. I say ‘Be,’ and it is, and thou shalt say ‘Be,’ and it shall be." ; ...,
The Kitáb-i-Íqán "translate ... from the realm of fancy to the domain of fact and from the plane of mere pretension to that of actual achievement ..."
Apologetics
Promised Day is Come "As to the position of Christianity, let it be stated without any hesitation or equivocation that its divine origin is unconditionally acknowledged, that the Sonship and Divinity of Jesus Christ are fearlessly asserted, that the divine inspiration of the Gospel is fully recognized, that the reality of the mystery of the Immaculacy of the Virgin Mary is confessed, and the primacy of Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, is upheld and defended.”
