Say: O people! The Tree of
Life hath verily been planted in the heart of the heavenly paradise and
bestoweth life in every direction. How can ye fail to perceive and recognize
it? It will in truth aid thee to grasp all that this well-assured Soul hath disclosed
unto thee of the essence of the divine mysteries. The Dove of holiness warbleth
in the heaven of immortality and admonisheth thee to array thyself with a new
vesture, wrought of steel to shield thee from the shafts of doubt concealed in
the allusions of men, saying: “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is
flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said
unto thee, ye must be born again.” [John 3:5–7]
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Gems of
Divine Mysteries’, ‘Javáhiru’l-Asrár’)
