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Baha’u’llah and the New Era

CHAPTER 3: BAHA'U'LLAH: THE GLORY OF GOD
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For they have been made manifest in the uttermost state of servitude, a servitude the like of which no man can possibly attain.

Thus in moments in which these Essences of being were deeply immersed beneath the oceans of ancient and everlasting holiness, or when they soared to the loftiest summits of divine mysteries, they claimed their utterance to be the Voice of divinity, the Call of God Himself.

Were the eye of discernment to be opened, it would recognize that in this very state, they have considered themselves utterly effaced and non-existent in the face of Him Whom is the All-Pervading, the incorruptible.

Methinks, they have regarded themselves as utter nothingness, and deemed their mention in that Court an act of blasphemy.

For the slightest whisperings of self, within such a Court, is an evidence of self-assertion and independent existence.
In the eyes of them that have attained unto that Court, such a suggestion is itself a grievous transgression.


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