O ye who are the chosen ones of the Abhá Kingdom! Praise ye
the Lord of Hosts for He, riding upon the clouds, hath come down to this world
out of the heaven of the invisible realm, so that East and West were lit by the
glory of the Sun of Truth, and the call of the Kingdom was raised, and the
heralds of the realm above, with melodies of the Concourse on high, sang out
the glad tidings of the Coming. Then the whole world of being did quiver for
joy, and still the people, even as the Messiah saith, slept on: for the day of
the Manifestation, when the Lord of Hosts descended, found them wrapped in the
slumber of unknowing. As He saith in the Gospel, My coming is even as when the
thief is in the house, and the goodman of the house watcheth not.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha)
