After
this heavenly journey and mystical ascent the wayfarer will enter within the
Garden of Wonderment. Were I to disclose unto thee the reality of this station,
thou wouldst lament and bewail the plight of this Servant Who remaineth in the
hands of these infidels, Who hath grown perplexed at his plight, and is lost in
bewilderment in this fathomless ocean. They conspire each day to put Me to
death, and seek at every hour to banish Me from this land, even as they
banished Me from another land. Yet this Servant standeth ready before them,
awaiting whatsoever the Almighty hath ordained and decreed for Us. Nor do I
fear any soul, encompassed as We may be by such trials and tribulations as are
inflicted by the wicked and the malicious and surrounded at this hour by a
myriad woes and sorrows. “Noah’s flood is but the measure of the tears I have
shed, and Abraham’s fire an ebullition of My soul. Jacob’s grief is but a
reflection of My sorrows, and Job’s afflictions a fraction of My calamity.”
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gems of Divine Mysteries’)
