Kitáb-i-Íqán | 118 |
Such things have come to pass in the days of
every Manifestation of God. Even as Jesus said:
"Ye must be born again." (1) Again He saith: "Except
a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he
cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. That which
is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit." (2) The purport of these
words is that whosoever in every dispensation is
born of the Spirit and is quickened by the breath of
the Manifestation of Holiness, he verily is of those
that have attained unto "life" and "resurrection"
and have entered into the "paradise" of the love of
God. And whosoever is not of them, is condemned
to "death" and "deprivation," to the "fire" of unbelief,
and to the "wrath" of God. In all the scriptures,
the books and chronicles, the sentence of
death, of fire, of blindness, of want of understanding
and hearing, hath been pronounced against
those whose lips have tasted not the ethereal cup
of true knowledge, and whose hearts have been deprived
of the grace of the holy Spirit in their day.