Between the truth which comes from God through His Prophets,
and the glimmerings, often misunderstood and misinterpreted, of truth which
come from the philosophers and thinkers, there is an immense difference. We
must never, under any circumstances, confuse the two. Bahá'u'lláh has said that
learning can be the veil between the soul of man and the eternal truth; in
other words, between man and the knowledge of God. We have seen that many
people who become very advanced in the study of modern physical sciences are
led to deny God, and to deny His Prophets. That does not mean that God and the
Prophets have not existed and do not exist. It only means that knowledge has
become a veil between their hearts and the light of God.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated
22 April 1954 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer;
The Compilation of Compilations, vol. III, Scholarship)
