Mirror
Perfect mirror as analogy[edit]
The Holy Spirit is like a mirror facing the sun (God)[edit]
"The fifth degree of spirit is the Holy Spirit, which is the mediator between God and His creation. It is like a mirror facing the sun: Just as a spotless mirror receives the rays of the sun and reflects its bounty to others, so too is the Holy Spirit the mediator of the light of holiness, which it conveys from the Sun of Truth to sanctified souls."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, Chapter 36, par. 7)
The sun does not descend into a perfectly polished mirror, but the qualities appear[edit]
"The Lord Christ said, `He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father'--God manifested in man.
"The sun does not leave his place in the heavens and descend into the mirror, for the actions of ascent and descent, coming and going, do not belong to the Infinite, they are the methods of finite beings. In the Manifestation of God, the perfectly polished mirror, appear the qualities of the Divine in a form that man is capable of comprehending."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Paris Talks, p. 26)
Biblical references[edit]
“Who (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God .”
“Who (Jesus) ... the express image of His person (God).”
“Lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
“But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”