… I now reveal for thee this Tablet… that thou mayest hear…
the sweet melodies of the nearness of the heavenly Paradise… Perchance thou
mayest become pure spirit; attain, without taking a single step, the loftiest
stations of mystic ascent; and explore, without leaving thine outward
habitation, the furthermost reaches of the worlds of inner significance.
Thereupon wouldst thou, with a divine rapture, experience true spiritual
attraction, lay down thy life in the path of the Friend, and sacrifice thy soul
in the wilderness of His love. This indeed is the meaning of stillness in
flight and flight in stillness, of fluidity in solidity and solidity in
fluidity.
- Baha’u’llah (‘From the Tablet of ‘Letter Bá to the Letter Há’; ‘The
Call of the Divine Beloved’)
