Flame
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Analogies[edit]
Flame (in candle) representing potential energies in man[edit]
"These energies with which the Day Star of Divine bounty and Source of heavenly guidance hath endowed the reality of man lie, however, latent within him, even as the flame is hidden within the candle and the rays of light are potentially present in the lamp..."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, sec. XXVII, p. 65-66)