Author: ross_in_canadaross_in_canada
Date: Jan 5, 2008 23:16
Divine guidance is spiritual, thus its path cannot be discerned in the
same manner as following the route of a stream or river. And even in
the case of a stream, if 100 students in a classroom were handed a
topographical map showing a glacial lake high on a mountain and the
contours of the mountainside and the valleys and hills below, and then
told to attempt to draw in the route of a stream flowing out of the
lake, down the mountainside and into a lake or the sea, dozens of
different routes would be drawn by those students, and there would be
many surprises when the map showing the actual route of the stream
were later presented to them.
There will be many surprises when history reveals the actual route of
Divine guidance during this Bahá'à Era.
And it is because Divine guidance has a Divine Source, not a secular
source, and also because the route of divine guidance is directed
through the hereditary principle of the Bahá'à Faith, not through
democratic elections or the uninspired choices of women and/or men,
that the path of the flow of that Divine guidance must be spiritually
discerned.
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