1981
Shoghi Effendi wrote that “[T]he core of religious faith is that mystic feeling which unites Man with God.”
Both Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá rejected the traditional mystical doctrines of the Sufis which are more or less identical with the doctrines of the Hindu and Indian schools of mysticism.
Professor Hatcher reviews the notion of conscious and unconscious states of reality, also described at the visible and invisible states of reality. It is the scientific method that gives us a way to explore the unseen invisible reality. Shoghi Effendi said the Bahá'í Faith was "scientific in its method". Before the scientific method the so-called 'dogmatic method' was the basic paradigm of human thought.