r of the future.
Were We to address Our theme by speaking in the language of the inmates of
the Kingdom, We would say: "In truth, God created that School ere He
created heaven and earth, and We entered it before the letters B and E
were joined and knit together." Such is the language of Our servants in
Our Kingdom; consider what the tongue of the dwellers of Our exalted
Dominion would utter, for We have taught them Our knowledge and have
revealed to them whatever had lain hidden in God's wisdom. Imagine then
what the Tongue of Might and Grandeur would utter in His All-Glorious
Abode!

178 This is not a Cause which may be made a plaything for your idle
fancies, nor is it a field for the foolish and faint of heart. By God,
this is the arena of insight and detachment, of vision and upliftment,
where none may spur on their chargers save the valiant horsemen of the
Merciful, who have severed all attachment to the world of being. These,
truly, are they that render God victorious on earth, and are the
dawning-places of His sovereign might amidst mankind.

179 Beware lest aught that hath been revealed in the Bayan should keep you
from your Lord, the Most Compassionate. God is My witness that the Bayan
was sent down for no other purpose than to celebrate My praise, did ye but
know! In it the pure in heart will find only the fragrance of My love,
only My Name that overshadoweth all that seeth and is seen. Say: Turn ye,
O people, unto that which hath proceeded from My Most Exalted Pen. Should
ye inhale therefrom the fragrance of God, set not yourselves against Him,
nor deny yourselves a portion of His gracious favour and His manifold
bestowals. Thus doth your Lord admonish you; He, verily, is the
Counsellor, the Omniscient.

180 Whatsoever ye understand not in the Bayan, ask it of God, your Lord
and the Lord of your forefathers. Should He so desire, He will expound for
you that which is revealed therein, and disclose to you the pearls of
Divine knowledge and wisdom that lie concealed within the ocean of its
words. He, verily, is supreme over all names; no God is there but Him, the
Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

181 The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating
influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind's ordered life
hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous
System--the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.

182 Immerse yourselves in the ocean of