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)
