54: “Philosophy, as you will study it and later teach it, is certainly not…”
Philosophy, as you will study it and later teach it, is certainly not
one of the sciences that begins and ends in words. Fruitless excursions into
metaphysical hair-splittings is meant, not a sound branch of learning like
philosophy….
As regards your own studies: he would advise you not to devote too much
of your time to the abstract side of philosophy, but rather to approach it
from a more historical angle. As to correlating philosophy with the Bahá’í
teachings: this is a tremendous work which scholars in the future can
undertake. We must remember that not only are all the teachings not yet
translated into English, but they are not even all collected yet. Many
important Tablets may still come to light which are at present owned privately.