Will, Knowledge, and Love as Explained in Bahá'u'lláh's Four Valleys
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The Journal of Bahá'í Studies 6, 17-33Abstract: Explores some of the abstruse concepts exposited by Bahá'u'lláh in The Four Valleys. The first three valleys are described as three aspects of the spiritual path to be trod by any human being, so that he may acquire knowledge of God, as realization of the self, through the use of his capacities of willing, knowing and loving. The fourth valley is interpreted as describing the lofty and unattainable condition of the Manifestations of God, and offering a hint of the glory of the goal of perfection towards which human beings should strive, albeit that such perfection will never be theirs.
Explores some of the abstruse concepts exposited by Bahá'u'lláh in The Four Valleys. The first three valleys are described as three aspects of the spiritual path to be trod by any human being, so that he may acquire knowledge of God, as realization of the self, through the use of his capacities of willing, knowing and loving. The fourth valley is interpreted as describing the lofty and unattainable condition of the Manifestations of God, and offering a hint of the glory of the goal of perfection towards which human beings should strive, albeit that such perfection will never be theirs.