Unity and Oneness

I decided to do another entry to make up for a lot of lost time and some extra time that I have on my hands.

Before we begin, I'd like to return first to the Valley of Knowledge. Recall the idea of the paradox of finding peace in war and knowledge in ignorance. After some consultation, I found a better solution or perhaps understanding of this paragraph. There is an interesting philosophy in which people declare darkness is simply the absence of light. I agree with this statement wholeheartedly as it makes complete sense. If you enter a room, it may be in complete darkness. However, when you exert energy (i.e. light a lamp), there is light which illumines the room. Likewise, ignorance is simply the absence of knowledge and war the absence of peace. You have to add something (i.e. do work) in order to obtain the true good. Hence the phrase, "it is easy to be bad and hard to be good." This is simply because one must exert energy in order to be good.

Remember, it is all about the Knowledge of God and not our own knowledge. It is this way we begin to perhaps begin to understand what is going on in the world around us that on the surface seems inexplicable.

Now to the Valley of Unity. After exiting the Valley of Search, Love and Knowledge, we have detached ourselves of our physical reality-the limited-and have allowed ourselves to enter the limitless. Here, one's identity begins to be lost because we see that everything is united under God. There is no difference in creation as it is all from God. However, this does not mean there are not different tiers of creation. Within each being, there is the potential to manifest the attributes of God. Bahá'u'lláh likens this idea to the sun, where the sun shines its rays on the earth, but each medium reflects or uses the rays in various methods (i.e. the mirror simply reflect it, but a crystal can refract it). Likewise, it is like the idea of visible colors. Light shines on every object, but the object only chooses to shed back certain parts of that light. It is not that the sun shines different on every object. It simply is due to the potential of the object itself (I will not get into the aromatics or photochemical effects behind this). Thus all objects are equal but have different potentialities. For this reason, it is written, "Thou art kind to all, Thou hast provided for all, dost shelter, conferrest life upon all. Thou hast endowed each and all with talents and faculties, and all are submerged in the Ocean of thy Mercy." (Prayer for Mankind) One can then make the assumption that we are all equal in our inequalities. We can see it like man and woman and their equality. We are equal as human beings. Both genders have brains and minds to think with and hearts, lungs, nose and mouth to breath with. Physiologically we are very similar. However, we are still not equal. Man and woman both have different methods of thinking-man being more aggressive and logical, woman being more compassionate and thoughtful. Both are necessary and both genders need to work together to advance forward. In like wise, it does not mean that animals shall become like humans (they shall not become anthropomorphic). Rather, again, we are separated by our capacities. The tree very well will not begin to move and walk around, much like the dear will not begin to speak and drive a car. Humans, also, shall for this reason be separated from God and His Manifestations.

Much of the conflict the world has faced throughout the years is because of this idea. We find differences in others and try to make claims due to these differences, we are better than them. Such is a ridiculous claim. However, God is the Most Forgiving. He allows us to clean our own mirrors, thus empowering us and purifying our hearts. By this point, we have the desire simply to give our lives to God.

When we fall in love with the Word of God, thus the Manifestation of God for the current day (whether it be Jesus, Bahá'u'lláh, Buddah, etc.), our entire body becomes immersed with these Words and it shows through our action. However, all of this mentioned above is hidden within us unless we remove the veils which shut us out from God. That would mean our physical self. The physical is simply an illusion of our self and it keeps us from progressing, from realizing the oneness of everything. Thus we begin to realize we are unstoppable in our actions. From here many doors open and eternity is witnessed.

The beauty is that it is our humanity that limits us. We can go forever as humans, but we can surpass this infinity but detaching ourselves of everything of our mortal selves. The mortal has three realms of detachment, three stages which we must surpass. The immortal has four realms... and this is just the first. And we cannot even unravel the Hidden Mysteries within each realm even when we reach them. They remain hidden to our minds as we do not have the capacity to understand them.

For each Valley, we will all see different things for we all have different paths and different experiences and different capacities. The tests we face and the powers we gain shall be to different levels. However, the same idea applies-we are detaching ourselves of each part of our existence.




We begin with the Valley of Search trying to find what our journey is to lead to, detached of previous bias.
We enter the Valley of Love to detach ourselves of all previous love and love for the sake of God.
We enter the Valley of Knowledge where within everything we find the possibilities of perfection and we detach ourselves of all previous knowledge.
We leave the limited realm and enter the limitless Valley of Unity and see God within every being, and we no longer are the center of the universe.

The limitless realms will continue as we enter the Valleys of Contentment, Wonderment, and True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness.

If there is anything I did not explain well or you think must be clarified, please do so! Thank you very much!