s beareth witness
this Tablet that hath shed the splendor of the loving-kindness of your
Lord, the All-Glorious, the All-Compelling." "Blessed are the people of
Baha! God beareth Me witness! They are the solace of the eye of creation.
Through them the universes have been adorned, and the Preserved Tablet
embellished. They are the ones who have sailed on the ark of complete
independence, with their faces set towards the Dayspring of Beauty. How
great is their blessedness that they have attained unto what their Lord,
the Omniscient, the All-Wise, hath willed. Through their light the heavens
have been adorned, and the faces of those that have drawn nigh unto Him
made to shine." "By the sorrows which afflict the beauty of the
All-Glorious! Such is the station ordained for the true believer that if
to an extent smaller than a needle's eye the glory of that station were to
be unveiled to mankind, every beholder would be consumed away in his
longing to attain it. For this reason it hath been decreed that in this
earthly life the full measure of the glory of his own station should
remain concealed from the eyes of such a believer." "If the veil be
lifted, and the full glory of the station of those who have turned wholly
towards God, and in their love for Him renounced the world, be made
manifest, the entire creation would be dumbfounded."

"Verily I say! No one hath apprehended the root of this Cause. It is
incumbent upon everyone, in this day, to perceive with the eye of God, and
to hearken with His ear. Whoso beholdeth Me with an eye besides Mine own
will never be able to know Me. None among the Manifestations of old,
except to a prescribed degree, hath ever completely apprehended the nature
of this Revelation." "I testify before God to the greatness, the
inconceivable greatness of this Revelation. Again and again have We, in
most of Our Tablets, borne witness to this truth, that mankind may be
roused from its heedlessness." "How great is the Cause, how staggering the
weight of its Message!" "In this most mighty Revelation all the
Dispensations of the past have attained their highest, their final
consummation." "That which hath been made manifest in this preeminent,
this most exalted Revelation, stands unparalleled in the annals of the
past, nor will future ages witness its like." "The purpose underlying all
creation is the revelation of this most sublime, this most holy Day, the
Day known as the Day of God, in His Books and S