The Summons of the Lord of Hosts eBook

Bahá'u'lláh
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 233 pages of information about The Summons of the Lord of Hosts.

The Summons of the Lord of Hosts eBook

Bahá'u'lláh
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 233 pages of information about The Summons of the Lord of Hosts.

49 O Temple of God!  No sooner had the hosts of Divine Revelation been sent down by the Lord of all names and attributes bearing the banners of His signs, than the exponents of doubt and fancy were put to flight.  They disbelieved in the clear tokens of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, and rose up against Him in enmity and opposition.  Amongst them were those who claimed:  “These are not clear verses from God, nor do they proceed from an innate and untaught nature.”  Thus do the unbelievers seek to remedy the sickness of their hearts, utterly heedless that they thus render themselves accursed of all who dwell in heaven and on earth.

50 Say:  The Holy Spirit Itself hath been generated through the agency of a single letter revealed by this Most Great Spirit, if ye be of them that comprehend.  And that innate and untaught nature in its essence is called into being by the verses of God, the Help in Peril, the All-Glorious, the Best-Beloved.  Say:  This nature prideth itself in its relation to Our transcendent Truth, whilst We, for Our part, glory neither in it nor in aught else, for all beside Myself hath been created through the potency of My word, could ye but understand.

51 Say:  We have revealed Our verses in nine different modes.  Each one of them bespeaketh the sovereignty of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.  A single one of them sufficeth for a proof unto all who are in the heavens and on the earth; yet the people, for the most part, persist in their heedlessness.  Should it be Our wish, We would reveal them in countless other modes.

52 Say:  O people!  Fear ye God, and allow not your tongues to utter, in their deceitfulness, that which displeaseth Him.  Stand abashed before the One Who, as ye well know, hath created you out of a drop of water.(5) Say:  We have created all that are in heaven and on earth in the nature made by God.  Whosoever turneth unto this blessed Countenance shall manifest the potentialities of that inborn nature, and whosoever remaineth veiled therefrom shall be deprived of this invisible and all-encompassing grace.  Verily, there is naught from which Our favour hath been withheld, inasmuch as We have dealt equitably in the fashioning of each and all, and by a word of Our mouth presented unto them the trust of Our love.  They that have accepted it are indeed safe and secure, and are numbered among those who are immune from the terrors of this Day.  Those, however, who have rejected it have, in truth, disbelieved in God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.  Thus do We distinguish between the people and pronounce judgement upon them.  We, of a certainty, have the power to discern.

53 Say:  The Word of God can never be confounded with the words of His creatures.  It is, in truth, the King of words, even as He is Himself the sovereign Lord of all, and His Cause transcendeth all that was and all that shall be.  Enter, O people, the City of Certitude wherein the throne of your Lord, the All-Merciful, hath been established.  Thus biddeth you the Pen of the All-Glorious, as a token of His unfailing grace.  Haply ye may not make His Revelation a cause of dissension amongst you.

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