O Temple of God! No
sooner had the hosts of Divine Revelation been sent down by the Lord of all
names and attributes bearing the banners of His signs, than the exponents of
doubt and fancy were put to flight. They
disbelieved in the clear tokens of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting,
and rose up against Him in enmity and opposition. Amongst them were those who claimed: “These are not clear verses from God, nor do
they proceed from an innate and untaught nature.” Thus do the unbelievers seek to remedy the
sickness of their hearts, utterly heedless that they thus render themselves
accursed of all who dwell in heaven and on earth.
Say: The Holy Spirit
Itself hath been generated through the agency of a single letter revealed by
this Most Great Spirit, if ye be of them that comprehend. And that innate and untaught nature in its
essence is called into being by the verses of God, the Help in Peril, the
All-Glorious, the Best-Beloved.
Say: This nature prideth itself in
its relation to Our transcendent Truth, whilst We, for Our part, glory neither
in it nor in aught else, for all beside Myself hath been created through the
potency of My word, could ye but understand.
(Baha'u'llah, Suriy-i-Haykal, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts)
(Baha'u'llah, Suriy-i-Haykal, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts)
