On this night [Birth of the Báb] the fragrance of nearness
was wafted, the portals of reunion at the end of days were flung open, and all
created things were moved to exclaim: “The Kingdom is God’s, the Lord of all
names, Who is come with world-embracing sovereignty!” On this night the
Concourse on high celebrated the praise of their Lord, the Exalted, the Most
Glorious, and the realities of the divine names extolled Him Who is the King of
the beginning and the end in this Revelation, a Revelation through whose potency
the mountains have hastened unto Him Who is the All-Sufficing, the Most High,
and the hearts have turned towards the countenance of their Best-Beloved, and
the leaves have been stirred into motion by the breezes of yearning, and the
trees have raised their voices in joyful reply to the call of Him Who is the
Unconstrained, and the entire earth hath trembled with longing in its desire to
attain reunion with the Eternal King, and all things have been made new by that
concealed Word which hath appeared in this mighty Name. - Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
