Meanwhile we long for happiness, and then reject it when it is brought to us. Because happiness for human beings means being raised out of the blind physical world into the conscious life of the spirit, and this can only be done by the Prophet of God. At His advent we fight Him and resist Him, whether He is Moses or Buddha, Jesus or Muḥammad, or Bahá’u’lláh.

Man is showing by his acts that he has lost God and in consequence has also lost himself. “And be ye not like those,” the Qur’án warns, “who forget God, and whom He hath therefore caused to forget their own selves.” (59:19). Man is bewildered—straying in a wilderness. He must find the meaning in the universe again, and this meaning is God as expressed by the Prophet; then he will rediscover his own self, the reflection of the meaning; then he will have a way of life in keeping with the facts and will consciously follow it.

A seventeen year old boy is referred to in this book. He was a troublesome youth and his father was worried about him. Then Bahá’u’lláh, imprisoned in the barracks of ‘Akká, summoned him. Following their interview, the boy, alone and on foot, carried to Persia Bahá’u’lláh’s Tablet to the Sháh. He reached the capital after a four months' journey; he fasted, prayed, and waited on a rock until he saw the Sháh and his suite going hunting in the direction of the hill villages north of Ṭihrán. He approached them and called out in