The language of light and energy touches the Spirit as well as the body. As we progress towards the future, may our religions and sciences enter into increasingly ornate interconnection. May wisdom not be siloed nor hoarded from our brethren, but given freely and in earnest to all seekers.
It would seem uncontroversial to define elaboration as "the shedding of light on a particular matter." Ruhi Book 1 talks about how the soul is like a lamp, and in Seven valleys it is written:
"And if a place be shut away from the light, as by walls or a roof, it will be entirely bereft of the splendor of the light, nor will the sun shine thereon."
- Bahá'u'lláh, p.19
It is also indicated that the illumination of such truths is to some degree contingent upon or restricted by the nature of the illumined object: [1]
"Consider the visible sun; although it shineth [sic] with one radiance upon all things... yet in each place it becometh [sic] manifest and sheddeth [sic] its bounty according to the potentialities of the place. [It] traineth [sic] each thing according to the quality of that thing, as thou observest."
- Ibid, pp.18-19
The symbolism of mirrors and burnishing, representing a clear and unobstructed reflection of said light, echoes what Langdon Winner writes:
"...the sphere of technics one wishes to talk about has grown rapidly, [while] the linguistic resources of public discourse have changed little at all."
- L. Winner, Autonomous Technology (p.10)
In this way, honing our means of communication allows for a crisper public semiosis, and thus the painstaking labor of defining terms undertaken by mathematicians and philosophers from time immemorial, allows for a more unadulterated refelcting of this divine light, and thus a truer discourse. [2]
Endnotes
[1] I wrote "[sic]" so many times above, because I wanted to poke fun at/draw attention to the habit of using these old-timey sounding words that definitely weren't in existence by the time these things were written in the mid-to-late 19th century. Verily, verily, the Book of Mormon does this a lot as well.
[2] C.f. Popper on "verisimilitude" (source not on hand), or Museum Theory on selective revelation.