I swear by God, O people! I wish only to rid your religions
of all that hath in this day become the cause of contention. These verses, O
people, are the breezes of the spirit that are wafting over you and would
transmute your mortal condition into eternal life, could ye but fix your gaze
upon them. O people! The tree of knowledge hath yielded its fruit upon this
everlasting Lote-Tree; the Primal Point hath been unfolded; and the Word of
God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, hath been fulfilled. O people! The
beauty of His countenance hath been revealed, the veils have been parted, the
Nightingale hath warbled its melody, the Mount of holiness hath been made
resplendent, and all who are in the heavens and on the earth have been
illumined, could ye but see with the eye of the spirit!
- The Báb (Quoted by
Baha’u’llah, ‘Days of Remembrance’)
