I testify that no sooner had the First
Word proceeded, through the potency of Thy will and purpose, out of His mouth,
and the First Call gone forth from His lips than the whole creation was
revolutionised, and all that are in the heavens and all that are on earth were
stirred to the depths. Through that Word the realities of all created things
were shaken, were divided, separated, scattered, combined and reunited,
disclosing, in both the contingent world and the heavenly kingdom, entities of
a new creation, and revealing, in the unseen realms, the signs and tokens of
Thy unity and oneness. Through that Call Thou didst announce unto all Thy
servants the advent of Thy most great Revelation and the appearance of Thy most
perfect Cause.
- Bahá'u'lláh (‘Prayers
and Meditations’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. III, Social
and Economic Development)
