none of us who belong to
this generation can befittingly estimate. Such testimonies bearing on this
theme are impregnated with such power and reveal such beauty as only those
who are versed in the languages in which they were originally revealed can
claim to have sufficiently appreciated. So numerous are these testimonies
that a whole volume would be required to be written in order to compile
the most outstanding among them. All I can venture to attempt at present
is to share with you only such passages as I have been able to glean from
His voluminous writings.

"I testify before God," proclaims Baha'u'llah, "to the greatness, the
inconceivable greatness of this Revelation. Again and again have We in
most of Our Tablets borne witness to this truth, that mankind may be
roused from its heedlessness." "In this most mighty Revelation," He
unequivocally announces, "all the Dispensations of the past have attained
their highest, their final consummation." "That which hath been made
manifest in this preeminent, this most exalted Revelation, stands
unparalleled in the annals of the past, nor will future ages witness its
like." "He it is," referring to Himself He further proclaims, "Who in the
Old Testament hath been named Jehovah, Who in the Gospel hath been
designated as the Spirit of Truth, and in the Qur'an acclaimed as the
Great Announcement." "But for Him no Divine Messenger would have been
invested with the robe of prophethood, nor would any of the sacred
scriptures have been revealed. To this bear witness all created things."
"The word which the one true God uttereth in this day, though that word be
the most familiar and commonplace of terms, is invested with supreme, with
unique distinction." "The generality of mankind is still immature. Had it
acquired sufficient capacity We would have bestowed upon it so great a
measure of Our knowledge that all who dwell on earth and in heaven would
have found themselves, by virtue of the grace streaming from Our pen,
completely independent of all knowledge save the knowledge of God, and
would have been securely established upon the throne of abiding
tranquillity." "The Pen of Holiness, I solemnly affirm before God, hath
writ upon My snow-white brow and in characters of effulgent glory these
glowing, these musk-scented and holy words: 'Behold ye that dwell on
earth, and ye denizens of heaven, bear witness, He in truth is your
Well-Beloved. He it is Whose like the world of creation hat