This profitless world produceth naught save deadly poison,
and its ephemeral dregs can never yield the everlasting cup. Were the Jesus of
the spirit to give ear to the call of holiness from the Falcon of the realm
above, He would assuredly cry out from His inmost being and be seized with
fervid longing even as the lover’s soul. It is through that call that the Moses
of eternity was dumbfounded; it is by its virtue that the Abraham of
faithfulness shattered the idol of the mortal body. Shatter then, in turn, this
idol, that thou mayest take up thine abode in the land of the Beloved; and
forsake all desire, that thou mayest take flight unto the Egypt of imperishable
glory. Sanctify the city of thine heart, that thou mayest behold the beauty of
the Divine Essence and be quickened to a new life through the grace of the Holy
Spirit.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Call of the Divine Beloved’)
