Tablet to August Forel

1844-1921 `Abdu'L-Bahá

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Title: Tablet to August Forel

Author: Abdul-Bahá

Release Date: September 2006 [Ebook 19292]

Language: English

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TABLET TO AUGUST FOREL***

Tablet

to

August

byAbdul-Bahá

Edition

1,

Forel

(September

2006)

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ABDUL-BAHÁS DR. FOREL 1

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1 Original Persian text first published Cairo 1922. This translation taken from The Baháí World, Vol. XV, pp. 3743.

[Pages 610]

O revered personage, lover of truth! Thy letter dated 28 July 1921 2 hath been received. The contents thereof were most pleas- ing and indicated that, praised be the Lord, thou art as yet young, and searchest after truth, that thy power of thought is strong and the discoveries of thy mind manifest. Numerous copies of the epistle I had written to Dr. F. are spread far and wide and every one knoweth that it hath been revealed in the year 1910. Apart from this, numerous epistles have been written before the war upon the same theme, and reference, too, hath been made to these questions in the Journal of the San Francisco University, the date whereof is known be- yond any doubt. 3 In like manner have the philosophers of broad vision praised highly the discourse eloquently delivered in the above-named University. 4 A copy of that paper is thus enclosed and forwarded. Thy works are no doubt of great benefit, and if published, send us a copy of each. By materialists, whose belief with regard to Divinity hath been explained, is not meant philosophers in general, but rather that group of materialists of narrow vision who worship that which is sensed, who depend upon the five senses only, and whose criterion of knowledge is limited to that which can be perceived by the senses. All that can be sensed is to them real, whilst whatever falleth not under the power of the senses is either 2 Abdul-Bahá is obviously referring to the letter from Forel translated above and dated 28 December 1920. 3 Abdul-Bahá refers to His talk at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Califor- nia, in 1912, which was published in the local newspaper and is also included in the collection of His talks in America, entitled The Promulgation of Universal Peace. 4 There Abdul-Bahá distinguishes the materialistic and empirical philos- ophy of the modern West from the standard rationalistic philosophy of the Greeks and Persians, and highlights the difference between theories of the essence of nature and of the origin of man.