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The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh

  • Author:

  • Bahá’u’lláh

  • Source:
  • US Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1985 reprint
  • Pages:
  • 52
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Page 39

“48: O BRETHREN! Be forbearing one with another and set not your…”

In the third of the most holy lines writ and recorded in the Ruby Tablet by the pen of the unseen this is revealed:
O BRETHREN! Be forbearing one with another and set not your affections on things below. Pride not yourselves in your glory, and be not ashamed of abasement. By My beauty! I have created all things from dust, and to dust will I return them again.