Contemplate With Thine Inward Eye The
Sources: Gleanings From The Writings Of Baha'u'llahContemplate with thine inward eye the chain of successive Revelations that
hath linked the Manifestation of Adam with that of the Bab. I testify
before God that each one of these Manifestations hath been sent down
through the operation of the Divine Will and Purpose, that each hath been
the bearer of a specific Message, that each hath been entrusted with a
divinely-revealed Book and been commissioned to unravel the mysteries of a
mighty Tablet. The measure of the Revelation with which every one of them
hath been identified had been definitely fore-ordained. This, verily, is a
token of Our favor unto them, if ye be of those that comprehend this
truth.... And when this process of progressive Revelation culminated in
the stage at which His peerless, His most sacred, and exalted Countenance
was to be unveiled to men's eyes, He chose to hide His own Self behind a
thousand veils, lest profane and mortal eyes discover His glory. This He
did at a time when the signs and tokens of a divinely-appointed Revelation
were being showered upon Him--signs and tokens which none can reckon except
the Lord, your God, the Lord of all worlds. And when the set time of
concealment was fulfilled, We sent forth, whilst still wrapt within a
myriad veils, an infinitesimal glimmer of the effulgent Glory enveloping
the Face of the Youth, and lo, the entire company of the dwellers of the
Realms above were seized with violent commotion and the favored of God
fell down in adoration before Him. He hath, verily, manifested a glory
such as none in the whole creation hath witnessed, inasmuch as He hath
arisen to proclaim in person His Cause unto all who are in the heavens and
all who are on the earth.
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