O Pen of the Most High! Move Thou upon the Tablet at the
bidding of Thy Lord, the Creator of the Heavens, and tell of the time when He
Who is the Dayspring of Divine Unity purposed to direct His steps towards the
School of Transcendent Oneness; haply the pure in heart may gain thereby a
glimpse, be it as small as a needle’s eye, of the mysteries of Thy Lord, the
Almighty, the Omniscient, that lie concealed behind the veils. Say: We, indeed,
set foot within the School of inner meaning and explanation when all created
things were unaware. We saw the words sent down by Him Who is the All-Merciful,
and We accepted the verses of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting,
which He (the Báb) presented unto Us, and hearkened unto that which He had
solemnly affirmed in the Tablet. This we assuredly did behold. And We assented
to His wish through Our behest, for truly We are potent to command.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
