O friends of God! Incline your inner ears to the voice of
the peerless and self-subsisting Lord, that He may deliver you from the bonds
of entanglement and the depths of darkness and enable you to attain the eternal
light. Ascent and descent, stillness and motion, have come into being through
the will of the Lord of all that hath been and shall be. The cause of ascent is
lightness, and the cause of lightness is heat. Thus hath it been decreed by
God. The cause of stillness is weight and density, which in turn are caused by
coldness. Thus hath it been decreed by God.
And since He hath ordained heat to be the source of motion
and ascent and the cause of attainment to the desired goal, He hath therefore
kindled with the mystic hand that Fire that dieth not and sent it forth into
the world, that this divine Fire might, by the heat of the love of God, guide
and attract all mankind to the abode of the incomparable Friend. This is the
mystery enshrined in your Book that was sent down aforetime, a mystery which
hath until now remained concealed from the eyes and hearts of men. That primal
Fire hath in this Day appeared with a new radiance and with immeasurable heat.
This divine Fire burneth of itself, with neither fuel nor fume, that it might
draw away such excess moisture and cold as are the cause of torpor and
weariness, of lethargy and despondency, and lead the entire creation to the
court of the presence of the All-Merciful. Whoso hath approached this Fire hath
been set aflame and attained the desired goal, and whoso hath removed himself therefrom
hath remained deprived.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Tabernacle of Unity’)
