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.

72 O Living Temple!  We have made Thee the Dayspring of each one of Our most excellent titles, the Dawning-Place of each one of Our most august attributes, and the Fountainhead of each one of Our manifold virtues unto the denizens of earth and heaven.  Thereafter have We raised Thee up in Our own image betwixt the heavens and the earth, and ordained Thee to be the sign of Our glory unto all who are in the realms of revelation and creation, that My servants may follow in Thy footsteps, and be of them who are guided aright.  We have appointed Thee the Tree of grace and bounty unto the dwellers of both the heavens and the earth.  Well is it with them who seek the shelter of Thy shade and who draw nigh unto Thy Self, the omnipotent Protector of the worlds.

73 Say:  We have made each one of Our Names a wellspring from which We have caused the streams of divine wisdom and understanding to gush forth and flow in the garden of Our Cause—­streams whose number none can reckon save Thy Lord, the Most Holy, the Omnipotent, the Omniscient, the All-Wise.  Say:  We have generated all Letters from the Point and have caused them to return unto It, and We have sent It down again in the form of a human temple.  All glory be unto the Author of this incomparable and wondrous handiwork!  Erelong shall We unfold and expound It again, in Our name, the All-Glorious.  This is indeed a token of Our grace, and I, truly, am the Most Bountiful, the Ancient of Days.

74 We have brought forth all Lights from the Orb of Our name, the True One, have caused them to return unto It, and have again made them manifest in the form of a human temple.  All glory be unto the Lord of strength, might, and power!  None can withstand the operation of My will or the exercise of My might.  I am He Who hath raised up all creatures through a word of My mouth, and My power is, in truth, equal to My purpose.

75 Say:  It is in Our power, should We wish it, to cause all created things to expire in an instant, and, with the next, to endue them again with life.  The knowledge thereof, however, is with God alone, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.  It is in Our power, should We wish it, to enable a speck of floating dust to generate, in less than the twinkling of an eye, suns of infinite, of unimaginable splendour, to cause a dewdrop to develop into vast and numberless oceans, to infuse into every letter such a force as to empower it to unfold all the knowledge of past and future ages.  This, in truth, is a matter simple of accomplishment.  Such have been the evidences of My power from the beginning that hath no beginning until the end that hath no end.  My creatures, however, have been oblivious of My power, have repudiated My sovereignty, and contended with Mine own Self, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

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