February 19, 2013

The Nature of God from the Baha’i perspective – from a memorandum of the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice

- the "Essence" of God is "unknowable".

- The "Reality of Divinity ... is invisible, incomprehensible, inaccessible, a pure essence which cannot be described ..."

- God is "exalted beyond every human attribute, such as corporeal existence..."

- "God is never flesh". The Godhead has no physical form and does not in any way resemble a human being, male or female.

- The "attributes" of the Manifestations of God are the means by which the "Divine characteristics and perfections" of God are made known to humanity. (From a Memorandum of the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, dated February 23, 1992)