Arise thou amongst men in the name of this all-compelling
Cause, and summon, then, the nations unto God, the Mighty, the Great. Be thou
not of them who called upon God by one of His names, but who, when He Who is
the Object of all names appeared, denied Him and turned aside from Him, and, in
the end, pronounced sentence against Him with manifest injustice. Consider and
call thou to mind the days whereon the Spirit of God (Jesus Christ) appeared,
and Herod gave judgment against Him. God, however, aided Him with the hosts of
the unseen, and protected Him with truth, and sent Him down unto another land,
according to His promise. He, verily, ordaineth what He pleaseth. Thy Lord
truly preserveth whom He willeth, be he in the midst of the seas or in the maw
of the serpent, or beneath the sword of the oppressor.
(Baha’u’llah, from a Tablet addressed to the Czar of Russia, quoted by Baha’u’llah in the ‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
(Baha’u’llah, from a Tablet addressed to the Czar of Russia, quoted by Baha’u’llah in the ‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
