ibid., section LXXXI.

Julian Huxley, cited by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (London: William Collins Sons &Co. Ltd., 1959), page 243. See also Julian Huxley, Knowledge, Morality, and Destiny (New York: Harper &Brothers, 1957), page 13.

Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1991), page 35.

Gleanings, section LXXVIII.

ibid., section CXXXII.

Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1993), paragraph 182.

Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 4.

ibid., paragraph 8.

ibid., paragraph 13.

ibid., paragraph 14.