Call out to
Zion, O Carmel, and announce the joyful tidings: He that was
hidden from
mortal eyes is
come! His all-conquering sovereignty is manifest;
His all-encompassing
splendor is revealed. Beware lest thou hesitate or halt.
Hasten forth
and circumambulate the City of God that hath descended from
heaven, the
celestial Kaaba round which have circled in adoration the favored
of God, the
pure in heart, and the company of the most exalted angels. Oh,
how I long
to announce unto every spot on the surface of the earth, and to
carry to each
one of its cities, the glad-tidings of this Revelation--a
Revelation
to which the heart of Sinai hath been attracted, and in whose name
the Burning
Bush is calling: `Unto God, the Lord of Lords, belong the
kingdoms of
earth and heaven.' Verily this is the Day in which both land and
sea rejoice
at this announcement, the Day for which have been laid up those
things which
God, through a bounty beyond the ken of mortal mind or heart,
hath destined
for revelation. Ere long will God sail His Ark upon thee, and
will manifest
the people of Bahá who have been mentioned in the Book of Names."
-- Bahá'u'lláh,
Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 16
Whatsoever ye understand not in the
Bayán, ask it of God, your Lord and the
Lord of your forefathers. Should
He so desire, He will expound for you that
which is revealed therein, and disclose
to you the pearls of Divine knowledge
and wisdom that lie concealed within
the ocean of its words. He, verily, is
supreme over all names; no God is
there but Him, the Help in Peril, the
Self-Subsisting.
The world's equilibrium hath been
upset through the vibrating influence of this
most great, this new World Order.
Mankind's ordered life hath been revolutionized
through the agency of this unique,
this wondrous System--the like of which
mortal eyes
have never witnessed.
-- Bahá'u'lláh, The
Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 85