By My life! Couldst thou but know the things sent down by My
Pen, and discover the treasures of My Cause, and the pearls of My mysteries
which lie hid in the seas of My names and in the goblets of My words, thou
wouldst, in thy love for My name, and in thy longing for My glorious and
sublime Kingdom, lay down thy life in My path.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Czar
Alexander II, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of
Hosts’)