By My life, O friend! Wert thou to taste the fruits of these
verdant trees that spring from the soil of true understanding, once the
effulgent light of His Essence hath been reflected in the Mirrors of His names
and attributes yearning would seize the reins of patience and restraint from
out thy hand and stir thy spirit into commotion with the splendours of His
light. It would draw thee from this abode of dust unto thy true and heavenly
habitation in the midmost heart of mystic knowledge, and raise thee to a
station wherein thou wilt soar in the air even as thou treadest upon the earth,
and wilt walk upon the water even as thou movest over the land.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Seven Valleys’, 2019 revised translation by the Baha’i World Centre; ‘The
Call of the Divine Beloved’)
