It is clear and evident that, in this Dispensation wherein
the banner of utterance hath been raised aloft and the candle of discernment
hath been lit, there is no Lord but the Exalted One [the Báb] He it is Who is
one in His essence and one in His attributes, single in the kingdom of names
and peerless in the realm of actions. It is by virtue of His blessed name that
the seas of Divine Unity have been made to surge; it is through the power of
His resistless command that the immutable decrees of destiny have been
enforced; it is through the potency of His sovereign might that the dictates of
fate have been fixed. Who hath the power to soar in that exalted atmosphere or
to cherish another beloved than Him? We all abide beneath His shadow and seek
our portion from the ocean of His grace. However far the gnat may fly, it can
never traverse the length and breadth of heaven, and however high the sparrow
may soar, it can never attain the tree of immortality.
- Baha’u’llah (‘From the
Letter Bá to the Letter Há; ‘The Call of the Divine Beloved’)
