O thou who speakest in My Name!  Consider the people and the things they have wrought in My days.  We revealed unto one of the rulers that which overpowereth all the dwellers of the earth, and requested him to bring Us face to face with the learned men of this age, that We might set forth for him the testimony of God, His proofs, His glory and His majesty; and naught did We intend thereby but the highest good.  However, he committed that which hath caused the inmates of the cities of justice and equity to lament.  Thus hath judgement been given between Me and him.  Verily thy Lord is the Ordainer, the All-Informed.  In such circumstances as thou seest, how can the Celestial Bird soar into the atmosphere of divine mysteries when its wings have been battered with the stones of idle fancy and bitter hatred, and it is cast into a prison built of unyielding stone?  By the righteousness of God!  The people have perpetrated a grievous injustice.

As regards thine assertions about the beginning of creation, this is a matter on which conceptions vary by reason of the divergences in men’s thoughts and opinions.  Wert thou to assert that it hath ever existed and shall continue to exist, it would be true; or wert thou to affirm the same concept as is mentioned in the sacred Scriptures, no doubt would there be about it, for it hath been revealed by God, the Lord of the worlds.  Indeed He was a hidden treasure.  This is a station that can never be described nor even alluded to.  And in the station of ’I did wish to make Myself known’, God was, and His creation had ever existed beneath His shelter from the beginning that hath no beginning, apart from its being preceded by a Firstness which cannot be regarded as firstness and originated by a Cause inscrutable even unto all men of learning.

That which hath been in existence had existed before, but not in the form thou seest today.  The world of existence came into being through the heat generated from the interaction between the active force and that which is its recipient.  These two are the same, yet they are different.  Thus doth the Great Announcement inform thee about this glorious structure.  Such as communicate the generating influence and such as receive its impact are indeed created through the irresistible Word of God which is the Cause of the entire creation, while all else besides His Word are but the creatures and the effects thereof.  Verily thy Lord is the Expounder, the All-Wise.

Know thou, moreover, that the Word of God—­exalted be His glory—­is higher and far superior to that which the senses can perceive, for it is sanctified from any property or substance.  It transcendeth the limitations of known elements and is exalted above all the essential and recognized substances.  It became manifest without any syllable or sound and is none but the Command of God which pervadeth all created things.  It hath never been withheld from the world of being.  It is God’s all-pervasive grace, from which all grace doth emanate.  It is an entity far removed above all that hath been and shall be.