O people! I swear by the one true God! This is the Ocean out
of which all Seas have proceeded, and with which every one of them will
ultimately be united. From Him all the Suns have been generated, and unto Him
they will all return. Through His potency the Trees of Divine Revelation have
yielded their fruits, every one of which hath been sent down in the form of a
Prophet, bearing a Message to God’s creatures in each of the worlds whose
number God, alone, in His all-encompassing knowledge, can reckon. This He hath
accomplished through the agency of but one Letter of His Word, revealed by His
Pen—a Pen moved by His directing Finger—His Finger itself sustained by the
power of God’s Truth.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in ‘The Advent of
Divine Justice’)
