Say: O peoples of
all faiths! Walk not in the ways of them that followed the Pharisees and thus
veiled themselves from the Spirit. They truly have strayed and are in error. The
Ancient Beauty is come in His Most Great Name, and He wisheth to admit all
mankind into His most holy Kingdom. The pure in heart behold the Kingdom of God
manifest before His Face. Make haste thereunto and follow not the infidel and
the ungodly… Thus hath it been decreed by the Pen of the Ancient of Days, as
bidden by Him Who is the Lord of the entire creation. He, verily, hath come
again that ye might be redeemed, O peoples of the earth. Will ye slay Him Who
desireth to grant you eternal life? Fear God, O ye who are endued with insight.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Pope Pius IX, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The
Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
