Thou hast, moreover, asked Me concerning the nature of the
celestial spheres. To comprehend their nature, it would be necessary to inquire
into the meaning of the allusions that have been made in the Books of old to
the celestial spheres and the heavens, and to discover the character of their
relationship to this physical world, and the influence which they exert upon
it. Every heart is filled with wonder at so bewildering a theme, and every mind
is perplexed by its mystery. God, alone, can fathom its import. The learned
men, that have fixed at several thousand years the life of this earth, have
failed, throughout the long period of their observation, to consider either the
number or the age of the other planets. Consider, moreover, the manifold divergencies
that have resulted from the theories propounded by these men. Know thou that
every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures,
whose number no man can compute.
- Baha'u'llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha'u'llah’)
