O people of the earth! To attain the ultimate retreat in
God, the True One, are we to seek a Gate other than this exalted Being?...
When God created the Remembrance He presented Him to the
assemblage of all created beings upon the altar of His Will. Thereupon the
concourse of the angels bowed low in adoration to God, the Peerless, the
Incomparable; while Satan waxed proud, refusing to submit to His Remembrance;
hence he is identified in the Book of God as the arrogant one and the accursed.
[Qur’án 2:32; 38:74–78] (The Báb, excerpts from the Qayyumu’l-Asma, ‘Selections
from the Writings of the Báb)
