Were you to ponder, but for a while, these utterances in
your heart, you would surely find the portals of understanding unlocked before
your face, and would behold all knowledge and the mysteries thereof unveiled
before your eyes. Such things [1] take place only that the souls of men may
develop and be delivered from the prison-cage of self and desire. Otherwise,
that ideal King hath, throughout eternity, been in His Essence independent of
the comprehension of all beings, and will continue, for ever, in His own Being
to be exalted above the adoration of every soul. A single breeze of His
affluence doth suffice to adorn all mankind with the robe of wealth; and one
drop out of the ocean of His bountiful grace is enough to confer upon all
beings the glory of everlasting life. But inasmuch as the divine Purpose hath
decreed that the true should be known from the false, and the sun from the
shadow, He hath, therefore, in every season sent down upon mankind the showers
of tests from His realm of glory. (Baha’u’llah, ‘Kitab-i-Iqan’)
[1] Such as altering of the law of the Qiblih by Muhammah (mentioned in the preceding paragraph)
