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Selections From the Writings of the Báb

  • Author:

  • The Báb

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í World Centre, 1982 lightweight edition
  • Pages:
  • 217
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Page 64

“O PEOPLE of the earth! To attain the ultimate retreat in …”
O PEOPLE of the earth! To attain the ultimate retreat in God, the True One, are we to seek a Gate other than this exalted Being?…
When God created the Remembrance He presented Him to the assemblage of all created beings upon the altar of His Will. Thereupon the concourse of the angels bowed low in adoration to God, the Peerless, the Incomparable; while Satan waxed proud, refusing to submit to His Remembrance; hence he is identified in the Book of God as the arrogant one and the accursed. 1 Chapter LXVII.
1. cf. Qur’án 2:32; 38:74–78   [ Back To Reference]