myriad nightingales pour out, in blissful rapture, their
melody. Its wondrous tulips unfold the mystery of the undying Fire in the
Burning Bush, and its sweet savors of holiness breathe the perfume of the
Messianic Spirit. It bestoweth wealth without gold, and conferreth
immortality without death. In each one of its leaves ineffable delights
are treasured, and within every chamber unnumbered mysteries lie hidden.

They that valiantly labor in quest of God, will, when once they have
renounced all else but Him, be so attached and wedded unto that City, that
a moment's separation from it would to them be unthinkable. They will
hearken unto infallible proofs from the Hyacinth of that assembly, and
will receive the surest testimonies from the beauty of its Rose, and the
melody of its Nightingale. Once in about a thousand years shall this City
be renewed and readorned....

That City is none other than the Word of God revealed in every age and
dispensation. In the days of Moses it was the Pentateuch; in the days of
Jesus, the Gospel; in the days of Muhammad, the Messenger of God, the
Qur'an; in this day, the Bayan; and in the Dispensation of Him Whom God
will make manifest, His own Book--the Book unto which all the Books of
former Dispensations must needs be referred, the Book that standeth
amongst them all transcendent and supreme.

CXXVI: TO WHATEVER PLACE WE MAY BE BANISHED,...

To whatever place We may be banished, however great the tribulation We may
suffer, they who are the people of God must, with fixed resolve and
perfect confidence, keep their eyes directed towards the Day Spring of
Glory, and be busied in whatever may be conducive to the betterment of the
world and the education of its peoples. All that hath befallen Us in the
past hath advanced the interests of Our Revelation and blazoned its fame;
and all that may befall Us in the future will have a like result. Cling
ye, with your inmost hearts, to the Cause of God, a Cause that hath been
sent down by Him Who is the Ordainer, the All-Wise. We have, with the
utmost kindliness and mercy, summoned and directed all peoples and nations
to that which shall truly profit them.

The Day Star of Truth that shineth in its meridian splendor beareth Us
witness! They who are the people of God have no ambition except to revive
the world, to ennoble its life, and regenerate its peoples. Truthfulness
and good-will have, at all times, marked their relations with all me