Following the declaration of His mission in 1863,
Bahá’u’lláh began to elaborate a theme already introduced in The Book of
Certitude, the relationship between the Will of God and the evolutionary
process by which the spiritual and moral capacities latent in human nature find
expression. This exposition would occupy a central place in His writings over
the remaining thirty years of His life. The reality of God, He asserts, is and
will always remain unknowable. Whatever words human thought may apply to the
Divine nature relate only to human existence and are the products of human
efforts to describe human experience…
(From ‘Baha’u’llah’: A statement prepared by
the Bahá'í International Community Office of Public Information, at the request
of the Universal House of Justice and published in 1992)
