Tear asunder the
veils of human learning lest they hinder thee from Him Who is My name, the
Self-Subsisting. Call thou to
remembrance Him Who was the Spirit, Who, when He came, the most learned of His
age pronounced judgement against Him in His own country, whilst he who was only
a fisherman believed in Him. Take heed,
then, ye men of understanding heart!
Thou, in truth, art one of the suns of the heaven of His names. Guard thyself, lest darkness spread its veils
over thee, and fold thee away from His light.
Ponder, then, that which hath been sent down in the Book by thy Lord,
the Almighty, the All-Bountiful.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Pope Pius IX, Suriy-i-Haykal
[Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
