Consider the past. How many, both high and low, have, at all
times, yearningly awaited the advent of the Manifestations of God in the
sanctified persons of His chosen Ones. How often have they expected His coming,
how frequently have they prayed that the breeze of Divine mercy might blow, and
the promised Beauty step forth from behind the veil of concealment, and be made
manifest to all the world. And whensoever the portals of grace did open, and
the clouds of divine bounty did rain upon mankind, and the light of the Unseen
did shine above the horizon of celestial might, they all denied Him, and turned
away from His face—the face of God Himself....
Reflect, what could have been the motive for such deeds?
What could have prompted such behavior towards the Revealers of the beauty of
the All-Glorious? (Baha’u’llah, ‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
