There can be no
doubt whatever that had these Apostles appeared, in bygone ages and cycles, in
accordance with the vain imaginations which the hearts of men had devised, no
one would have repudiated the truth of these sanctified Beings. Though such men
have been, night and day, remembering the one true God, and have been devoutly
engaged in the exercise of their devotions, yet they failed in the end to
recognize, and partake of the grace of, the Day Springs of the signs of God and
the Manifestations of His irrefutable evidences. To this the Scriptures bear
witness. Thou hast, no doubt, heard about it.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
