As to thy question concerning the worlds of God. Know thou
of a truth that the worlds of God are countless in their number, and infinite
in their range. None can reckon or comprehend them except God, the All-Knowing,
the All-Wise. Consider thy state when asleep. Verily, I say, this phenomenon is
the most mysterious of the signs of God amongst men, were they to ponder it in
their hearts. Behold how the thing which thou hast seen in thy dream is, after
a considerable lapse of time, fully realized. Had the world in which thou didst
find thyself in thy dream been identical with the world in which thou livest,
it would have been necessary for the event occurring in that dream to have
transpired in this world at the very moment of its occurrence. Were it so, you
yourself would have borne witness unto it. This being not the case, however, it
must necessarily follow that the world in which thou livest is different and
apart from that which thou hast experienced in thy dream. This latter world
hath neither beginning nor end. It would be true if thou wert to contend that
this same world is, as decreed by the All-Glorious and Almighty God, within thy
proper self and is wrapped up within thee. It would equally be true to maintain
that thy spirit, having transcended the limitations of sleep and having
stripped itself of all earthly attachment, hath, by the act of God, been made
to traverse a realm which lieth hidden in the innermost reality of this world.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
