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’)
