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Man's redemption thus comes about through steadfastness in the Covenant, aspirations towards a "godly way of life" lived in humility by good thoughts, words and deeds, and deliverance from attachment to the things of the world: deliverance (not flight from the world and asceticism) from the finite and a turning to the infinite, to God. The deeper spiritual foundations of the progress of the soul to its destination have been set out in great profundity by Baha'u'llah in two works written in the style and language of Islamic mysticism, 'The Seven Valleys' and 'The Four Valleys'. All men are called to travel this right path to redemption: "The Sun of Reality hath appeared to all the world. This luminous appearance is salvation and life; but only he who hath opened the eye of reality and who hath seen these lights will be saved" ('Abdul-Baha).
(100:2)
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