The Open Door: What Energy Reveals About God and Creation

This is Part 4 of a series. Read Part 1—"Is Knowledge a Light?: Quantum Physics and Spiritual Reality," Part 2—"The Stages of Spiritual Growth and Consciousness," and Part 3—"Raise Your Frequency with the Power of Thought.”

In Parts 1 through 3, I established that knowledge is a light, that light is energy, that energy is information shaping consciousness, and that our thoughts are the frequency we broadcast into the world. I explored the stages of spiritual growth and consciousness, and what the Buddha and the Baha'i writings reveal about the power of thought.

Now I’m arriving at the deepest question the series has been circling—the open door, if you will—if everything in existence is energy, and energy is the universal medium through which creation reveals itself, what exactly is it revealing? And what does the answer mean for raising your frequency?

What Energy Is Actually Revealing: A Sign of God in Every Created Thing

Baha'u'llah, the prophet and founder of the Baha’i Faith, wrote:

Know thou that every created thing is a sign of the revelation of God. Each, according to its capacity, is, and will ever remain, a token of the Almighty. Inasmuch as He, the sovereign Lord of all, hath willed to reveal His sovereignty in the kingdom of names and attributes, each and every created thing hath, through the act of the Divine Will, been made a sign of His glory.

So pervasive and general is this revelation that nothing whatsoever in the whole universe can be discovered that doth not reflect His splendor. Under such conditions every consideration of proximity and remoteness is obliterated…Were the Hand of Divine power to divest of this high endowment all created things, the entire universe would become desolate and void.

It appears that energy is the most pervasive sign of God in the physical world. Every photon, every atom, every quantum field is a token of the Almighty made manifest in the language of physics. What physicists call the unified field and the divine intelligence that metaphysicists believe organizes matter into coherent form is what the Baha'i writings called “the Hand of Divine power” that, if it were ever withdrawn, would render the entire universe “desolate and void.”And if this physical world is saturated with divine signs, what does that make the physical world itself? Abdu'l-Baha reveals:

Know thou that the Kingdom is the real world, and this nether place is only its shadow stretching out. A shadow hath no life of its own; its existence is only a fantasy, and nothing more; it is but images reflected in water, and seeming as pictures to the eye.

The physical world is a shadow of the divine Kingdom—and recall the quote from the Buddha in Part 3 about how happiness follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves—the same image, operating at two levels. As I discussed in Part 3, the shadow of happiness is the natural consequence of pure thought. The shadow of this physical world is the natural projection from the higher divine reality. In both cases, the shadow has no life on its own, its existence depends on the light that casts it. So, you—the observer, the seeker, the one raising their frequency—are not merely a physical creature navigating a material world. Baha’u’llah asked:

Dost thou deem thyself a small and puny form, When thou foldest within thyself the greater world?

This is true on both a scientific and a spiritual level. According to the Natural History Museum in London, stars make up 97% of our bodies—and any element in your body heavier than iron has travelled through at least one supernova. A supernova is what happens when a massive star reaches the end of its life and explodes with an almost unfathomable release of energy. In that moment of transformation, a single star can shine so brilliantly that it outshines entire galaxies—hundreds of billions of stars—all at once. 

It is in those explosions that the heavy elements essential to life are forged and scattered across the cosmos. The iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones, the oxygen you are breathing right now—all of it was born in the heart of a dying star and carried across the universe before finding its way into you. You are not separate from the cosmos. You are made of it. The brilliant light that has been burning in distant stars for billions of years is the same light that now animates your thoughts, your heartbeat, your very capacity to read these words and contemplate their meaning.

And yet Baha'u'llah was not referring merely to the physical universe folded within us. He was also pointing to something far more profound—the spiritual planes and states hidden within the human soul that the material world can only gesture toward. 

Baha'u'llah wrote that within every atom traces of the sun have been made manifest. Science confirms it—and then the writings take it further. You are not just made of light. You are a vessel for the light that God casts into the heart. You are a sign of His revelation, a token of the Almighty, folding within yourself not only the physical greater world but the spiritual one.

Every time you raise your frequency—through pure thought, earnest striving, prayer, meditation, and service—you are not just improving your inner state. You are becoming what 'Abdu'l-Baha described as a star of Providence:

...the friends are the stars of the summit of Providence and the planets of the firmament of Guidance. With perfect strength do they dispel darkness and destroy the foundation of envy and enmity. They wish for the world and its denizens unity and peace; they destroy the basis of war and strife; they seek integrity, faithfulness and friendliness…

This might be the fullest expression of what raising your frequency looks like in practice. It's not just about personal growth but also about becoming a source of light for others—destroying the foundation of envy and enmity and wishing for world unity and peace. Science and religion converge here: the higher your frequency, the more light you carry—and the more of that light reaches those around you.

In a sense, we are already stars. The stardust is already within us, but becoming a shining lamp and a brilliant star—in the way Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha mean—takes effort. It takes prayer, offered with joy and radiance rather than languor and despondency. It takes reading the writings with that same spirit. It takes deepening, meditation, service, and pure thought. It takes what Baha'u'llah described in The Seven Valleys—kindling the fire of love and burning away all the veils that pollute our perception— because it is that fire, that earnest striving and passionate devotion, that causes the light of our stardust to shine bright. The physical star is already within you. The spiritual star is what you become when you raise your frequency high enough for that light to break through.

One of the first Baha'i prayers I memorized as a child was:

O God, guide me, protect me, make of me a shining lamp and a brilliant star. Thou art the Mighty and the Powerful.

A shining lamp and a brilliant star are not just beautiful images. They are a frequency. They are what we become when we raise our consciousness high enough to receive the light God casts into the heart—and luminous enough to reflect it outward into the world.

This is what we are made of. This is what we are moving through. And this is what we rise toward every time we raise our frequency.

The Open Door: Your Frequency Is the Key

As I explored in Part 1, Baha'u'llah wrote that "in each and every thing a door of knowledge hath been opened, and within every atom traces of the sun have been made manifest."

The door was always open. Every radiant trace of creation—every atom, every photon, every quantum field—has always been a sign of God's revelation, encoded with the treasury of knowledge that has always been available to us. The question is only what frequency we are transmitting from—and whether we are praying enough, meditating enough, reflecting enough, acting on the inspiration from our prayers, serving enough, and thinking with enough purity and radiance to raise our consciousness to the level where the door becomes visible.

From a Baha'i perspective, we are here for a purpose: to know God, to love and to serve humanity, and to work for world peace. To know God is to raise your consciousness toward the source of all light. To love and serve humanity is to express that light outward. To work for world peace is to bring the light of the divine Kingdom into the physical mirage we inhabit together.

In order to do this, we must first kindle the fire. As Baha'u'llah wrote in the Valley of Love—one of the seven stages of spiritual growth I explored in Part 2—"Kindle the fire of love and burn away all things; then set thy foot into the land of the lovers." 

The veils that obscure our perception of divine reality cannot be argued away or reasoned through. They must be burned with the fire of love and the light of faith. Abdu'l-Baha wrote:

When the light of faith is kindled in the lamp of the heart and soul, its spreading rays illumine every limb of the body. When this resplendent light shineth forth through the medium of the tongue, it is made manifest in the powers of speech and utterance. When its beams fall upon the eyes, insight and true vision are revealed, and when it stirreth the ear, it bestoweth attentive hearing.

When this light sheddeth its radiance upon the mind, it leadeth to the recognition of the All-Merciful, and when it setteth aglow the limbs, it findeth expression in purity and the worship of God. Otherwise, all physical powers, all limbs and members would remain useless and futile and their actions would fade like a mirage in the desert.

This is what the equation has been pointing toward all along. Love, faith, and knowledge are all lights. Light is energy that holds information. That information, received by a consciousness elevated enough to perceive it, illumines every faculty—the tongue, the eyes, the ears, the mind, the limbs—until the whole human being becomes an instrument of divine recognition and expression. The physics and the revelation are describing the same threshold. The unified field and the Kingdom of God are pointing toward the same source.

Although I did not expect one question on a Saturday morning—over nine hours straight of deepening that day—to become four articles, I am grateful for every insight that emerged about the connection between light, energy, frequency, knowledge, thought, and consciousness. I hope something in this series opened a door for you the way it opened one for me.

Baha'is believe that before all else, God created the mind. The mind is an attribute of the spirit, the instrument of light. Light is energy that holds information. Understanding information leads to knowledge. And knowledge, as Baha'u'llah promised, is what God casts into the heart. Is your frequency ready to receive it?