The world has had its great teachers, men of giant intellect and extensive research, men whose utterances have stimulated thought and opened to view vast fields of knowledge; and these men have been honored as guides and benefactors of their race; but there is One who stands higher than they. We can trace the line of the world's teachers as far back as human records extend; but the 14 Light was before them. As the moon and the stars of our solar system shine by the reflected light of the sun, so, as far as their teaching is true, do the world's great thinkers reflect the rays of the Sun of Righteousness. Every gleam of thought, every flash of the intellect, is from the Light of the world.

Verden har haft sine store lærere, mænd med en vældig forstand og vidtrækkende videnskabelig indsigt, mænd, hvis ord har stimuleret tænkningen og åbnet store felter af viden for vort blik. Disse mænd er blevet æret som deres slægts vejledere og velgørere, men der findes én, som står over dem. Vi kan følge verdens læreres spor så langt tilbage, som menneskers beretninger rækker, men før dem var Lyset. Ligesom månen og stjernerne i vort solsystem skinner på grund af det lys, der genspejles fra solen, sådan genspejler denne verdens store tænkere strålerne fra retfærdighedens Sol, for så vidt som deres lære er sand. Hver gnist af tanke og hvert glimt af forstand kommer fra verdens lys.