- Exploring past scriptures through Bahá'u'lláh's eyes reveals a unity of purpose and principle.
- The goal of humanity is to know God and to serve others.
- The soul’s ability to understand God’s purpose is dependent on interventions of the Divine.
- The succession of revelations has been an implicit, and usually explicit, feature of all revealed texts.
- A deep sense of the oneness of religion emerges. "Religion is religion, as science is science."
- It is inadequate recognition of the station of God's Manifestations to see them as the founders of separate religions. They are the spiritual Educators of history.