BahÃĄâ•Žuâ•ŽllÃĄh and the New Era - Knowledge Rush

His WritingsThe Writings of Bahá’u’lláh are most comprehensive in theirrange, dealing with every phase of human life, individual andsocial, with things material and things spiritual, with the interpretationof ancient and modern scriptures, and with propheticanticipations of both the near and distant future.The range and accuracy of His knowledge was amazing. Hecould quote and expound the Scriptures of the various religionswith which His correspondents or questioners were familiar, inconvincing and authoritative manner, although apparently Hehad never had the ordinary means of access to many of the booksreferred to. He declares, in Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, thatHe had never read the Bayán, although in His own WritingsHe shows the most perfect knowledge and understanding of theBáb’s Revelation. (The Báb, as we have seen, declared that HisRevelation, the Bayán, was inspired by and emanated from “HimWhom God shall make Manifest”!) With the single exceptionof a visit from Professor Edward Granville Browne, to whom inthe year 1890 He accorded four interviews, each lasting twentyto thirty minutes, He had no opportunities of intercourse withenlightened Western thinkers, yet His Writings show a completegrasp of the social, political and religious problems of the WesternWorld, and even His enemies had to admit that His wisdomand knowledge were incomparable. The well-known circumstancesof His long imprisonment render it impossible to doubtthat the wealth of knowledge shown in His Writings must havebeen acquired from some spiritual source, quite independent ofthe usual means of study or instruction and the help of books orteachers. 1919 When asked whether Bahá’u’lláh had made a special study of Westernwritings and founded His teachings in accordance with them ‘Abdu’l-Bahásaid that the books of Bahá’u’lláh, written and printed as long ago as the1870’s, contained the ideals now so familiar to the West, although at that time