tion preceding it, Baha'u'llah makes the following affirmation:
"If all the peoples of the world be invested with the powers and
attributes destined for the Letters of the Living, the Bab's chosen
disciples, whose station is ten thousand times more glorious than any
which the apostles of old have attained, and if they, one and all, should,
swift as the twinkling of an eye, hesitate to recognize the light of My
Revelation, their faith shall be of no avail and they shall be accounted
among the infidels." "So tremendous is the outpouring of Divine grace in
this Dispensation that if mortal hands could be swift enough to record
them, within the space of a single day and night there would stream verses
of such number as to be equivalent to the whole of the Persian Bayan."

"Give heed to my warning, ye people of Persia," He thus addresses His
countrymen, "If I be slain at your hands, God will assuredly raise up one
who will fill the seat made vacant through my death; for such is God's
method carried into effect of old, and no change can ye find in God's mode
of dealing." "Should they attempt to conceal His light on the continent,
He will assuredly rear His head in the midmost heart of the ocean and,
raising His voice, proclaim: 'I am the lifegiver of the world!'... And if
they cast Him into a darksome pit, they will find Him seated on earth's
loftiest heights calling aloud to all mankind: 'Lo, the Desire of the
world is come in His majesty, His sovereignty, His transcendent dominion!'
And if He be buried beneath the depths of the earth, His Spirit soaring to
the apex of heaven shall peal the summons: 'Behold ye the coming of the
Glory; witness ye the Kingdom of God, the most Holy, the Gracious, the
All-Powerful!'" "Within the throat of this Youth," is yet another
astounding statement, "there lie prisoned accents which, if revealed to
mankind to an extent smaller than a needle's eye, would suffice to cause
every mountain to crumble, the leaves of the trees to be discolored and
their fruits to fall; would compel every head to bow down in worship and
every face to turn in adoration towards this omnipotent Ruler Who, at
sundry times and in diverse manners, appeareth as a devouring flame, as a
billowing ocean, as a radiant light, as the tree which, rooted in the soil
of holiness, lifteth its branches and spreadeth out its limbs as far as
and beyond the throne of deathless glory."

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