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“IT behooveth you to await the Day of the appearance of …” |
IT behooveth you to await the Day of the appearance of
Him Whom God shall manifest. Indeed My aim in planting
the Tree of the Bayán hath been none other than to enable
you to recognize Me. In truth I Myself am the first to bow
down before God and to believe in Him. Therefore let
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not your recognition become fruitless, inasmuch as the
Bayán, notwithstanding the sublimity of its station, beareth
fealty to Him Whom God shall make manifest, and it is
He Who beseemeth most to be acclaimed as the Seat of
divine Reality, though indeed He is I and I am He. However,
when the Tree of the Bayán attaineth its highest
development, We shall bend it low as a token of adoration
towards its Lord Who will appear in the person of Him
Whom God shall make manifest. Perchance ye may be
privileged to glorify God as it befitteth His august Self.
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Indeed ye have been called into being through the power
of the Point of the Bayán while the Point Himself is resigned
to the Will of Him Whom God shall make manifest,
is exalted through His transcendent sublimity, is sustained
by the evidences of His might, is glorified by the majesty
of His oneness, is adorned by the beauty of His singleness, is
empowered by His eternal dominion and is invested with
authority through His everlasting sovereignty. How then
could they, who are but the creation of the Point, be justified
in saying ‘why or wherefore’?
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O congregation of the Bayán, and all who are therein!
Recognize ye the limits imposed upon you, for such a One
as the Point of the Bayán Himself hath believed in Him
Whom God shall make manifest, before all things were
created. Therein, verily, do I glory before all who are in the
kingdom of heaven and earth. Suffer not yourselves to be
shut out as by a veil from God after He hath revealed
Himself. For all that hath been exalted in the Bayán is but
as a ring upon My hand, and I Myself am, verily, but a ring
upon the hand of Him Whom God shall make manifest—glorified be His mention! He turneth it as He pleaseth, for
whatsoever He pleaseth, and through whatsoever He
pleaseth. He, verily, is the Help in Peril, the Most High.
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