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He Who in unnumbered passages claimed His utterance to be the "Voice of
Divinity, the Call of God Himself" thus solemnly affirms in the
Kitab-i-Iqan: "To every discerning and illumined heart it is evident that
God, the unknowable Essence, the Divine Being, is immeasurably exalted
beyond every human attribute such as corporeal existence, ascent and
descent, egress and regress... He is, and hath ever been, veiled in the
ancient eternity of His Essence, and will remain in His Reality
everlastingly hidden from the sight of men... He standeth exalted beyond
and above all separation and union, all proximity and remoteness... 'God
was alone; there was none else beside Him' is a sure testimony of this
truth."
"From time immemorial," Baha'u'llah, speaking of God, explains, "He, the
Divine Being, hath been veiled in the ineffable sanctity of His exalted
Self, and will everlasting continue to be wrapt in the impenetrable
mystery of His unknowable Essence... Ten thousand Prophets, each a Moses,
are thunderstruck upon the Sinai of their search at God's forbidding
voice, 'Thou shalt never behold Me!'; whilst a myriad Messengers, each as
great as Jesus, stand dismayed upon their heavenly thrones by the
interdiction 'Mine Essence thou shalt never apprehend!'" "How bewildering
to me, insignificant as I am," Baha'u'llah in His communion with God
affirms, "is the attempt to fathom the sacred depths of Thy knowledge! How
futile my efforts to visualize the magnitude of the power inherent in
Thine handiwork--the revelation of Thy creative power!" "When I
contemplate, O my God, the relationship that bindeth me to Thee," He, in
yet another prayer revealed in His own handwriting, testifies, "I am moved
to proclaim to all created things 'verily I am God!'; and when I consider
my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay!"
"The door of the knowledge of the Ancient of Days," Baha'u'llah further
states in the Kitab-i-Iqan, "being thus closed in the face of all beings,
He, the Source of infinite grace ... hath caused those luminous Gems of
Holiness to appear out of the realm of the spirit, in the noble form of
the human temple, and be made manifest unto all men, that they may impart
unto the world the mysteries of the unchangeable Being and tell of the
subtleties of His imperishable Essence... All the Prophets of God, His
well-favored, His holy and chosen Messengers are, without exception, the
bearers of His names and the embodiment
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