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..If the Baha'i Faith were only.. an intellectual and moral system in traditional religious terms, there would be no room in it for the mystical element.. in great contrast to Catholic Christianity, the Protestant version has always maintained a very distant attitude to mysticism. The main theme of modern Protestant theology is the statement that there is no way from man to God but only from God to man, and.. (some) have castigated all mystical experience as "the most monstrous human presumption, " being an attempt "on the part of a creature to surmount an absolute difference, that between creator and creature." So the Protestant oriented to this theology has as little liking for mysticism as the Devil for holy water. It is not surprising, therefore, that.. (he) made no effort to understand Baha'u'llah's 'The Seven Valleys' or 'Kitab-I-Iqan'. (63:1) ..According to Biblical expectation of the Last Days.. (as interpreted by some Theologians) world history will end in a catastrophe, and this catastrophe is the destiny of the human race, which is moving not towards its self-perfection but to rebellion against God and the Law..
(64:1)
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