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CLXIV: Members of the human race! Hold ye fast
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Members of the human race! Hold ye fast by the Cord which no man can sever. This will, indeed,
profit you all the days of your life, for its
strength is of God, the Lord of all worlds. Cleave ye
to justice and fairness, and turn away from the
whisperings of the foolish, them that are estranged
from God, that have decked their heads with the
ornament of the learned, and have condemned to
death Him Who is the Fountain of wisdom. My name
hath uplifted them to lofty grades, and yet, no sooner
did I reveal Myself to their eyes than they, with
manifest injustice, pronounced the sentence of My
death. Thus hath Our Pen revealed the truth, and yet
the people are sunk in heedlessness. |
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Whoso cleaveth to justice, can, under no circumstances,
transgress the limits of moderation. He discerneth
the truth in all things, through the guidance
of Him Who is the All-Seeing. The civilization, so
often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and
sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of
moderation, bring great evil upon men. Thus warneth
you He Who is the All-Knowing. If carried to excess,
civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as
it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints
of moderation. Meditate on this, O people,
and be not of them that wander distraught in the
wilderness of error. The day is approaching when its
flame will devour the cities, when the Tongue of
Grandeur will proclaim: "The Kingdom is God's, the
Almighty, the All-Praised!" |
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All other things are subject to this same principle
of moderation. Render thanks unto thy Lord Who
hath remembered thee in this wondrous Tablet. All-Praise
be to God, the Lord of the glorious throne. |
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Were any man to ponder in his heart that which
the Pen of the Most High hath revealed and to taste
of its sweetness, he would, of a certainty, find himself
emptied and delivered from his own desires, and
utterly subservient to the Will of the Almighty.
Happy is the man that hath attained so high a station,
and hath not deprived himself of so bountiful
a grace. |
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In this Day, We can neither approve the conduct
of the fearful that seeketh to dissemble his faith, nor
sanction the behavior of the avowed believer that
clamorously asserteth his allegiance to this Cause.
Both should observe the dictates of wisdom, and
strive diligently to serve the best interests of the
Faith. |
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Let every man observe and meditate on the conduct
of this wronged One. We have, ever since the
dawn of this Revelation until the present time, refused
either to hide Ourself from Our enemies, or
to withdraw from the companionship of Our friends.
Though encompassed with a myriad griefs and afflictions,
We have, with mighty confidence, summoned
the peoples of the earth to the Day Spring of Glory.
The Pen of the Most High is disinclined to recount,
in this connection, the woes it hath suffered. To reveal
them would, no doubt, plunge into sorrow the
favored among the faithful, they that truly uphold
the unity of God and are wholly devoted to His
Cause. He, verily, speaketh the truth, and is the All-Hearing,
the All-Knowing. Our life hath, for the
most part, been spent in the midst of Our enemies.
Witness how We are, at present, living in a nest of
serpents. |
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This Holy Land hath been mentioned and extolled
in all the sacred Scriptures. In it have appeared the
Prophets of God and His chosen Ones. This is the
wilderness in which all the Messengers of God have
wandered, from which their cry, "Here am I, here am
I, O my God" was raised. This is the promised Land
in which He Who is the Revelation of God was
destined to be made manifest. This is the Vale of
God's unsearchable decree, the snow-white Spot, the
Land of unfading splendor. Whatever hath come to
pass in this Day hath been foretold in the Scriptures
of old. These same Scriptures, however, unanimously
condemn the people that inhabit this land. They
have, at one time, been stigmatized as the "generation
of vipers." Behold how this wronged One is now,
whilst surrounded by a "generation of vipers," calling
aloud and summoning all men to Him Who is
the world's Ultimate Desire, the Summit and Day
Spring of Glory. Happy is the man that hath hearkened
to the voice of Him Who is the Lord of the
Kingdom of Utterance, and woe betide the heedless,
they that have strayed far from His truth. |
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