ondrous, His sublime, His
all-compelling, His clear, and most eloquent voice.

LIII: O NASIR, O MY SERVANT! GOD, THE ETERNAL...

O Nasir, O My servant! God, the Eternal Truth, beareth Me witness. The
Celestial Youth hath, in this Day, raised above the heads of men the
glorious Chalice of Immortality, and is standing expectant upon His seat,
wondering what eye will recognize His glory, and what arm will,
unhesitatingly, be stretched forth to seize the Cup from His snow-white
Hand and drain it. Only a few have as yet quaffed from this peerless, this
soft-flowing grace of the Ancient King. These occupy the loftiest mansions
of Paradise, and are firmly established upon the seats of authority. By
the righteousness of God! Neither the mirrors of His glory, nor the
revealers of His names, nor any created thing, that hath been or will ever
be, can ever excel them, if ye be of them that comprehend this truth.

O Nasir! The excellence of this Day is immensely exalted above the
comprehension of men, however extensive their knowledge, however profound
their understanding. How much more must it transcend the imaginations of
them that have strayed from its light, and been shut out from its glory!
Shouldst thou rend asunder the grievous veil that blindeth thy vision,
thou wouldst behold such a bounty as naught, from the beginning that hath
no beginning till the end that hath no end, can either resemble or equal.
What language should He Who is the Mouthpiece of God choose to speak, so
that they who are shut out as by a veil from Him can recognize His glory?
The righteous, inmates of the Kingdom on high, shall drink deep from the
Wine of Holiness, in My name, the all-glorious. None other besides them
will share such benefits.

LIV: BY THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, MY WELL-BELOVED!...

By the righteousness of God, my Well-Beloved! I have never aspired after
worldly leadership. My sole purpose hath been to hand down unto men that
which I was bidden to deliver by God, the Gracious, the Incomparable, that
it may detach them from all that pertaineth to this world, and cause them
to attain such heights as neither the ungodly can conceive, nor the
froward imagine.

LV: CALL THOU TO REMEMBRANCE, O LAND OF TA...

Call thou to remembrance, O Land of Ta (Tihran), the former days in which
thy Lord had made thee the seat of His throne, and had enveloped thee with
the effulgence of His glory. How vast the number of tho