142 As My tribulations multiplied, so did My love for God and for His Cause increase, in such wise that all that befell Me from the hosts of the wayward was powerless to deter Me from My purpose.  Should they hide Me away in the depths of the earth, yet would they find Me riding aloft on the clouds, and calling out unto God, the Lord of strength and of might.  I have offered Myself up in the way of God, and I yearn after tribulations in My love for Him, and for the sake of His good pleasure.  Unto this bear witness the woes which now afflict Me, the like of which no other man hath suffered.  Every single hair of Mine head calleth out that which the Burning Bush uttered on Sinai, and each vein of My body invoketh God and saith:  “O would I had been severed in Thy path, so that the world might be quickened, and all its peoples be united!” Thus hath it been decreed by Him Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.

143 Know of a truth that your subjects are God’s trust amongst you.  Watch ye, therefore, over them as ye watch over your own selves.  Beware that ye allow not wolves to become the shepherds of the fold, or pride and conceit to deter you from turning unto the poor and the desolate.  Wert thou to quaff the mystic Wine of everlasting life from the chalice of the words of thy Lord, the All-Merciful, thou wouldst be enabled to forsake all that thou dost possess and to proclaim My Name before all mankind.  Cleanse then thy soul with the waters of detachment.  Verily, this is the Remembrance that hath shone forth above the horizon of creation, which shall purge thy soul from the dross of the world.  Abandon thy palaces to the people of the graves, and thine empire to whosoever desireth it, and turn, then, unto the Kingdom.  This, verily, is what God hath chosen for thee, wert thou of them that turn unto Him.  They that have failed to turn unto the Countenance of God in this Revelation are indeed bereft of life.  They move as bidden by their own selfish desires, and are in truth accounted among the dead.  Shouldst thou desire to bear the weight of thy dominion, bear it then to aid the Cause of thy Lord.  Glorified be this station which whoever attaineth thereunto hath attained unto all good that proceedeth from Him Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

144 Arise thou, in My name, above the horizon of renunciation, and set, then, thy face towards the Kingdom, at the bidding of thy Lord, the Lord of strength and of might.  Through the power of My sovereignty stand before the inhabitants of the world and say:  “O people!  The Day is come, and the fragrances of God have been wafted over the whole of creation.  They that have turned away from His Face are the helpless victims of their corrupt inclinations.  They are indeed of them that have gone astray.”