Be fair, O people! The purpose of the Most Exalted One (the
Báb) was to insure that the proximity of the Revelation should not withhold men
from the Divine and everlasting Law, even as the companions of John (the
Baptist) were prevented from acknowledging Him Who is the Spirit (Jesus). Time
and again He hath said: “Suffer not the Bayán and all that hath been revealed
therein to withhold you from that Essence of Being and Lord of the visible and
invisible.” Should any one, considering this binding injunction, cling unto the
Bayán, such a one hath, verily, passed out of the shadow of the blessed and
exalted Tree. Be fair, O people, and be not of the heedless.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
