O Shaykh! Wert thou to perceive, be it less than a needle’s
eye, the breaths of Mine utterance, thou wouldst abandon the world and all that
is therein, and wouldst set thy face towards the lights of the countenance of
the Desired One. Briefly, in the sayings of Him Who is the Spirit (Jesus)
unnumbered significances lie concealed. Unto many things did He refer, but as
He found none possessed of a hearing ear or a seeing eye He chose to conceal
most of these things. Even as He saith: “But ye cannot bear them now.” That
Dawning-Place of Revelation saith that on that Day He Who is the Promised One
will reveal the things which are to come. Accordingly in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, and
in the Tablets to the Kings, and in the Lawḥ-i-Ra’ís, and in the Lawḥ-i-Fu’ád,
most of the things which have come to pass on this earth have been announced
and prophesied by the Most Sublime Pen.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of
the Wolf’)
