As to thy question concerning the worlds of God. Know thou of
a truth that the worlds of God are countless in their number, and infinite in their
range. None can reckon or comprehend them except God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
Consider thy state when asleep. Verily, I say, this phenomenon is the most mysterious
of the signs of God amongst men, were they to ponder it in their hearts. Behold
how the thing which thou hast seen in thy dream is, after a considerable lapse of
time, fully realized. Had the world in which thou didst find thyself in thy dream
been identical with the world in which thou livest, it would have been necessary
for the event occurring in that dream to have transpired in this world at the very
moment of its occurrence. Were it so, you yourself would have borne witness unto
it. This being not the case, however, it must necessarily follow that the world
in which thou livest is different and apart from that which thou hast experienced
in thy dream. This latter world hath neither beginning nor end. It would be true
if thou wert to contend that this same world is, as decreed by the All-Glorious
and Almighty God, within thy proper self and is wrapped up within thee. It would
equally be true to maintain that thy spirit, having transcended the limitations
of sleep and having stripped itself of all earthly attachment, hath, by the act
of God, been made to traverse a realm which lieth hidden in the innermost reality
of this world.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh’)
