And if, confirmed by the Creator, the lover escapeth the
claws of the eagle of love, he will enter THE REALM OF KNOWLEDGE and come out
of doubt into certitude, and turn from the darkness of wayward desire to the
guiding light of the fear of God. His inner eye will open and he will privily
converse with his Beloved; he will unlock the gates of truth and supplication
and shut the doors of idle fancy. He in this realm is content with the divine
decree, and seeth war as peace, and in death findeth the meaning of everlasting
life. With both inward and outward eyes he witnesseth the mysteries of
resurrection in the realms of creation and in the souls of men, and with a
spiritual heart apprehendeth the wisdom of God in His endless manifestations.
In the sea he findeth a drop, in a drop he beholdeth the secrets of the
sea.
Split the atom’s heart, and lo!
Within it thou wilt find a sun. [1]
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Seven Valleys’, 2019 revised translation
by the Baha’i World Centre; included in ‘The Call of the Divine Beloved’)
[1] Hátif-i-Isfahání (d.1783).
