is glory, and magnified be His might, and sanctified
be His holiness, and glorified be His grandeur, and lauded be His ways,
maketh each thing to be known through its own self; who then can know Him
through any one except Himself?" And further, He saith--exalted and
glorified be He: "Beware, beware lest, in the days of His Revelation, the
Vahid of the Bayan (eighteen Letters of the Living) shut thee not out as
by a veil from Him, inasmuch as this Vahid is but a creature in His sight.
And beware, beware that the words sent down in the Bayan shut thee not out
as by a veil from Him." And again, He--exalted be He--saith: "Look not upon
Him with any eye except His own. For whosoever looketh upon Him with His
eye, will recognize Him; otherwise he will be veiled from Him. Shouldst
thou seek God and His Presence, seek thou Him and gaze upon Him." And
likewise, He saith: "Better is it for thee to recite but one of the verses
of Him Whom God shall make manifest than to set down the whole of the
Bayan, for on that Day that one verse can save thee, whereas the entire
Bayan cannot save thee."

Say: O people of the Bayan! Be fair, be fair; and again, be fair, be fair.
Be ye not of them who have made mention of the Manifestation of the Cause
of God in the daytime and in the night season, and who, when He, through
His grace, appeared, and when the Horizon of Revelation was illumined,
pronounced against Him such a judgment as hath provoked the lamentations
of the inmates of the Kingdom and of the Realm of Glory, and of such as
have circled about the will of God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

Meditate upon these sublime words. He saith: "I, verily, am a believer in
Him, and in His Faith, and in His Book, and in His Testimonies, and in His
Ways, and in all that proceedeth from Him concerning them. I glory in My
kinship with Him, and pride Myself on My belief in Him." And likewise, He
saith: "O congregation of the Bayan and all who are therein! Recognize ye
the limits imposed upon you, for such a One as the Point of the Bayan
Himself hath believed in Him Whom God shall make manifest, before all
things were created. Therein, verily, do I glory before all who are in the
kingdom of heaven and earth." By God! All the atoms of the universe groan
and lament at the cruelty perpetrated by the froward among the people of
the Bayan. Whither are gone they who are endued with insight and hearing?
We beseech God--blessed and glorified be He--to summon