Consider the multitude of souls who seemed to be intensely
eager and athirst, yet when the Ocean of living waters did surge forth in the
world of being, they remained deprived thereof, inasmuch as they failed to
relinquish idle fancy and to become consciously aware of Him Who is the Object
of all knowledge. This failure is in recompense for the deeds their hands had
formerly wrought.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
