Promise for exploration and new methods
Promise for exploring Writings or technology[edit]
The teachings are just beginning to be explored and each new generation may find some greater meaning in the writings[edit]
“You Bahá’í children and young people have both great privileges and great obligations ahead of you, for your generation will be the ones to help build up a new, better and more beautiful world after the dark years of this war are passed. You should prepare yourselves for this great task by trying to grasp the true meaning of the teachings and not just merely accepting them as something you are taught. They are like a wonderful new world of thought just beginning to be explored, and when we realize that Bahá’u’lláh has brought teachings and laws for a thousand years to come, we can readily see that each new generation may find some greater meaning in the writings than the ones gone before did.”
- (On behalf of Shoghi Effendi, Importance of Deepening Our Knowledge and Understanding of the Faith, no. 135)
Baha'is should be the first to take up new and excellent methods[edit]
"The Baha'is should not always be the last to take up new and obviously excellent methods, but rather the first, as this agrees with the dynamic nature of the Faith which is not only progressive, but holds within itself the seeds of an entirely new culture and civilization."
- (On behalf of Shoghi Effendi, 5 May 1946 to an individual believer, Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86, sec. 162.49, p. 313)
