O God, my God! I bear witness to Thy unity and Thy oneness,
and that Thou art God, and that there is none other God but Thee. Thou hast
everlastingly been sanctified above the mention of any one but Thee and the
praise of all else except Thyself, and Thou wilt everlastingly continue to be
the same as Thou wast from the beginning and hast ever been. I beseech Thee, O
King of Eternity, by the Most Great Name, and by the effulgences of the Daystar
of Thy Revelation upon the Sinai of Utterance, and by the billows of the Ocean
of Thy knowledge among all created things, to graciously assist Me in that
which will draw Me nigh unto Thee, and will detach Me from all except Thee. By
Thy glory, O Lord of all being, and the Desire of all creation! I would love to
lay My face upon every single spot of Thine earth, that perchance it might be
honored by touching a spot ennobled by the footsteps of Thy loved ones!
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
