…that ideal King [God] is, in Himself and by Himself,
sufficient unto Himself and independent of all things. Neither doth the love of
His creatures profit Him, nor can their malice harm Him. All have issued forth
from abodes of dust, and unto dust shall they return, while the one true God,
alone and single, is established upon His Throne, a Throne which is beyond the
reaches of time and space, is sanctified above all utterance or expression, intimation,
description and definition, and is exalted beyond all notion of abasement and
glory. And none knoweth this save Him and those with whom is the knowledge of
the Book. No God is there but Him, the Almighty, the All-Bountiful.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple];
‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
