Would that pure and
stainless hearts could be found, that I might impart unto them a sprinkling
from the oceans of knowledge which My Lord hath bestowed upon Me, so that they
may soar in the heavens even as they walk upon the earth and speed over the waters
even as they course the land, and that they may take up their souls in their
hands and lay them down in the path of their Creator. Howbeit, leave hath not
been granted to divulge this mighty secret. Indeed, it hath been from
everlasting a mystery enshrined within the treasuries of His power and a secret
concealed within the repositories of His might, lest His faithful servants
forsake their own lives in the hope of attaining this most great station in the
realms of eternity. Nor shall they who wander in this oppressive darkness ever
attain unto it.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Gems of Divine Mysteries’,
‘Javáhiru’l-Asrár’)
