O concourse of monks!... Enter ye into wedlock, that after
you another may arise in your stead. We, verily, have forbidden you lechery,
and not that which is conducive to fidelity. Have ye clung unto the promptings
of your nature, and cast behind your backs the statutes of God? Fear ye God,
and be not of the foolish. But for man, who, on My earth, would remember Me,
and how could My attributes and My names be revealed? Reflect, and be not of them that have shut
themselves out as by a veil from Him, and were of those that are fast asleep.
He that married not could find no place wherein to abide, nor where to lay His
head, by reason of what the hands of the treacherous had wrought. His holiness
consisted not in the things ye have believed and imagined, but rather in the
things which belong unto Us. Ask, that ye may be made aware of His station
which hath been exalted above the vain imaginings of all the peoples of the
earth. Blessed are they that understand. - Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Napoleon III, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
