O King of Paris! Tell the priest to ring the bells no
longer. By God, the True One! The Most Mighty Bell hath appeared in the form of
Him Who is the Most Great Name, and the fingers of the will of Thy Lord, the
Most Exalted, the Most High, toll it out in the heaven of Immortality, in His
name, the All-Glorious. Thus have the mighty verses of Thy Lord been again sent
down unto thee, that thou mayest arise to remember God, the Creator of earth
and heaven, in these days when all the tribes of the earth have mourned, and
the foundations of the cities have trembled, and the dust of irreligion hath
enwrapped all men, except such as God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise, was
pleased to spare.
(Baha’u’llah, from a Tablet to Napoleon III, ‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
