The vitality of men's belief in God is dying out in every
land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The
corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society; what else
but the Elixir of His potent Revelation can cleanse and revive it? Is it within
human power, O Hakim, to effect in the constituent elements of any of the
minute and indivisible particles of matter so complete a transformation as to
transmute it into purest gold? Perplexing and difficult as this may appear, the
still greater task of converting satanic strength into heavenly power is one
that We have been empowered to accomplish. The Force capable of such a
transformation transcendeth the potency of the Elixir itself. The Word of God,
alone, can claim the distinction of being endowed with the capacity required
for so great and far-reaching a change.
(Baha'u'llah, ‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha'u'llah’)
