. How often the most insignificant of men
have acknowledged the truth, while the most learned have remained wrapt in
veils. Thus in every Dispensation a number of souls enter the fire by
reason of their following in the footsteps of others. IV, 18.

"Better is it for a person to write down but one of His ..."

Better is it for a person to write down but one of His verses than to
transcribe the whole of the Bayan and all the books which have been
written in the Dispensation of the Bayan. For everything shall be set
aside except His Writings, which will endure until the following
Revelation. And should anyone inscribe with true faith but one letter of
that Revelation, his recompense would be greater than for inscribing all
the heavenly Writings of the past and all that has been written during
previous Dispensations. Likewise continue thou to ascend through one
Revelation after another, knowing that thy progress in the Knowledge of
God shall never come to an end, even as it can have no beginning. VII, 13.

"O People of the Bayan! Be on your guard; for on the ..."

O People of the Bayan! Be on your guard; for on the Day of Resurrection no
one shall find a place to flee to. He will shine forth suddenly, and will
pronounce judgement as He pleaseth. If it be His wish He will cause the
abased to be exalted, and the exalted to be abased, even as He did in the
Bayan, couldst thou but understand. And no one but Him is equal unto this.
Whatever He ordaineth will be fulfilled, and nothing will remain
unfulfilled. VII, 9.

"Since all men have issued forth from the shadow of the ..."

Since all men have issued forth from the shadow of the signs of His
Divinity and Lordship, they always tend to take a path, lofty and high.
And because they are bereft of a discerning eye to recognize their
Beloved, they fall short of their duty to manifest meekness and humility
towards Him. Nevertheless, from the beginning of their lives till the end
thereof, in conformity with the laws established in the previous religion,
they worship God, piously adore Him, bow themselves before His divine
Reality and show submissiveness toward His exalted Essence. At the hour of
His manifestation, however, they all turn their gaze toward their own
selves and are thus shut out from Him, inasmuch as they fancifully regard
Him as one like unto themselves. Far from the glory of God is such a
comparison. Indeed that august Being resembleth the