O concourse of divines! When My verses were sent down, and
My clear tokens were revealed, We found you behind the veils. This, verily, is
a strange thing. Ye glory in My Name, yet ye recognized Me not at the time your
Lord, the All-Merciful, appeared amongst you with proof and testimony. We have
rent the veils asunder. Beware lest ye shut out the people by yet another veil.
Pluck asunder the chains of vain imaginings, in the name of the Lord of all
men, and be not of the deceitful. Should ye turn unto God and embrace His
Cause, spread not disorder within it, and measure not the Book of God with your
selfish desires. This, verily, is the counsel of God aforetime and hereafter,
and to this God’s witnesses and chosen ones, yea, each and every one of Us, do
solemnly attest.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas)
