It behooveth you to await
the Day of the appearance of Him Whom God shall manifest. Indeed My aim in
planting the Tree of the Bayán hath been none other than to enable you to
recognize Me. In truth I Myself am the first to bow down before God and to
believe in Him. Therefore let not your recognition
become fruitless, inasmuch as the Bayán, notwithstanding the sublimity of its
station, beareth fealty to Him Whom God shall make manifest, and it is He Who
beseemeth most to be acclaimed as the Seat of divine Reality, though indeed He
is I and I am He. However, when the Tree of the Bayán attaineth its highest
development, We shall bend it low as a token of adoration towards its Lord Who
will appear in the person of Him Whom God shall make manifest. Perchance ye may
be privileged to glorify God as it befitteth His august Self.
(The Báb, ‘Selections
from the Writings of the Báb)
