Faith in the Baháʼí Faith
Like most religions, the Baháʼí Faith holds that having a strong belief, a personal faith, is crucial to a spiritual life. Knowing the truth for oneself. A Being disciplined about search for truth can be seen as a philosophy, and the literature of the religion sometimes praises philosophers. According to the Baháʼí Faith, the object of all learning is to achieve the presence of God in one's life, and thereby to know ourselves. The Baháʼí Faith suggests that several ways of learning can help lead you to that goal: Progression and development. The Baháʼí  Faith also references the idea that like many other things, the appreciation of truth, one's belief, and one's degree of faithfulness, is progressive. Major works of the Baháʼí Faith are renderings of the overall progress of the individual: Seven Valleys, Four Valleys, Gems of Divine Mysteries, The Book of Certitude all reference stages of coming to know God and one's self. There are also significant references in various places in Baháʼí literature with respect to the goal or importance of a "praiseworthy character". For example a major initiative first mentioned in the first half of the twentieth  century was to engage in the "Double Crusade". Speaking to the United States Baháʼí community Shoghi Effendi said : (A) rectitude of conduct, which in all its manifestations offers a striking contrast to the deceitfulness and corruption that characterize the political life of the nation and of the partisan factions that compose it, a holiness and chastity that are diametrically opposed to the moral laxity and licentiousness which defile the character of a not inconsiderable proportion of its citizens, an interracial fellowship completely purged from the curse of racial prejudice which stigmatizes the vast majority of its people, these are the  weapons which the American believers can and must wield in their Double Crusade. First, to regenerate the inward life of their own community, and next to assail the longstanding evils that have entrenched themselves in the life of their nation. Thus half of the "Double Crusade" is about individual character and its issues within the religious community. Various disciplines are mandated or suggested in the Baháʼí Faith as ways to grow, and protect, one's faith: