Tread ye in the path of the one true God and ponder the ways
and words of Him Who is the Manifestation of His ancient Being, that perchance
ye may attain unto the Wellspring of the living waters of the All-Glorious.
Were believers and non-believers to occupy the same station, were the worlds of
God to be confined to this ephemeral plane, never would My previous
Manifestation have surrendered Himself into the hands of His foes or laid down
His life as a sacrifice. I swear by the dawning-light of this Cause that were
the people to grasp the barest intimation of the fervour and longing which
overcame that sovereign Beauty when His celestial Temple was suspended in the
air, all would, in the intensity of their own yearning, offer up their souls in
the path of this Manifestation of supernal glory. Indeed, sugar is the portion
of the parrot, while dung is the share of the beetle; the crow hath no part in
the warbling of the nightingale, and the bat fleeth the rays of the sun.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
