Know, moreover, that should one who hath attained unto these
stations [1] and embarked upon these journeys fall prey to pride and vainglory,
he would at that very moment come to naught and return to the first step
without realizing it. Indeed, they that seek and yearn after Him in these
journeys are known by this sign, that they humbly defer to those who have
believed in God and in His verses, that they are lowly before those who have
drawn nigh unto Him and unto the Manifestations of His Beauty, and that they
bow in submission to them that are firmly established upon the lofty heights of
the Cause of God and before its majesty.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gems of Divine Mysteries’)
[1] “the Garden of Search…the City of Love and Rapture… the
City of Divine Unity… the City of Search… the Garden of Wonderment… the City of
Absolute Nothingness… the City of Immortality”
