That which the aforesaid persons have mentioned concerning the stations of Divine Unity will conduce in no small measure to idleness and vain imaginings.  These mortal men have evidently set aside the differences of station and have come to regard themselves as God, while God is immeasurably exalted above all things.  Every created being however revealeth His signs which are but emanations from Him and not His Own Self.  All these signs are reflected and can be seen in the book of existence, and the scrolls that depict the shape and pattern of the universe are indeed a most great book.  Therein every man of insight can perceive that which would lead to the Straight Path and would enable him to attain the Great Announcement.  Consider the rays of the sun whose light hath encompassed the world.  The rays emanate from the sun and reveal its nature, but are not the sun itself.  Whatsoever can be discerned on earth amply demonstrateth the power of God, His knowledge and the outpourings of His bounty, while He Himself is immeasurably exalted above all creatures.

Christ saith:  ’Thou hast granted to children that whereof the learned and the wise are deprived.’  The sage of Sabzivar(14) hath said:  ’Alas!  Attentive ears are lacking, otherwise the whisperings of the Sinaic Bush could be heard from every tree.’  In a Tablet to a man of wisdom who had made enquiry as to the meaning of Elementary Reality, We addressed this famous sage in these words:  ’If this saying is truly thine, how is it that thou hast failed to hearken unto the Call which the Tree of Man hath raised from the loftiest heights of the world?  If thou didst hear the Call yet fear and the desire to preserve thy life prompted thee to remain heedless to it, thou art such a person as hath never been nor is worthy of mention; if thou hast not heard it, then thou art bereft of the sense of hearing.’  In brief, such men are they whose words are the pride of the world, and whose deeds are the shame of the nations.

Verily We have sounded the Trumpet which is none other than My Pen of Glory, and lo, mankind hath swooned away before it, save them whom God pleaseth to deliver as a token of His grace.  He is the Lord of bounty, the Ancient of Days.

Say:  O concourse of divines!  Pronounce ye censure against this Pen unto which, as soon as it raised its shrill voice, the kingdom of utterance prepared itself to hearken, and before whose mighty and glorious theme every other theme hath paled into insignificance?  Fear ye God and follow not your idle fancies and corrupt imaginings, but rather follow Him Who is come unto you invested with undeniable knowledge and unshakeable certitude.

Glorified be God!  Man’s treasure is his utterance, yet this Wronged One hath withheld His Tongue, for the disbelievers are lying in ambush; however, protection is afforded by God, the Lord of all worlds.  Verily, in Him have We placed Our trust and unto Him have We committed all affairs.  All-Sufficient is He for Us and for all created things.  He is the One by Whose leave, and through the potency of Whose command, the Day-Star of sovereign might hath shone resplendent above the horizon of the world.  Well is it with him who perceiveth and recognizeth the Truth and woe betide the froward and the faithless.