one of Our most august
attributes, and the Fountainhead of each one of Our manifold virtues unto
the denizens of earth and heaven. Thereafter have We raised Thee up in Our
own image betwixt the heavens and the earth, and ordained Thee to be the
sign of Our glory unto all who are in the realms of revelation and
creation, that My servants may follow in Thy footsteps, and be of them who
are guided aright. We have appointed Thee the Tree of grace and bounty
unto the dwellers of both the heavens and the earth. Well is it with them
who seek the shelter of Thy shade and who draw nigh unto Thy Self, the
omnipotent Protector of the worlds.
73 Say: We have made each one of Our Names a wellspring from which We have
caused the streams of divine wisdom and understanding to gush forth and
flow in the garden of Our Cause--streams whose number none can reckon save
Thy Lord, the Most Holy, the Omnipotent, the Omniscient, the All-Wise.
Say: We have generated all Letters from the Point and have caused them to
return unto It, and We have sent It down again in the form of a human
temple. All glory be unto the Author of this incomparable and wondrous
handiwork! Erelong shall We unfold and expound It again, in Our name, the
All-Glorious. This is indeed a token of Our grace, and I, truly, am the
Most Bountiful, the Ancient of Days.
74 We have brought forth all Lights from the Orb of Our name, the True
One, have caused them to return unto It, and have again made them manifest
in the form of a human temple. All glory be unto the Lord of strength,
might, and power! None can withstand the operation of My will or the
exercise of My might. I am He Who hath raised up all creatures through a
word of My mouth, and My power is, in truth, equal to My purpose.
75 Say: It is in Our power, should We wish it, to cause all created things
to expire in an instant, and, with the next, to endue them again with
life. The knowledge thereof, however, is with God alone, the All-Knowing,
the All-Informed. It is in Our power, should We wish it, to enable a speck
of floating dust to generate, in less than the twinkling of an eye, suns
of infinite, of unimaginable splendour, to cause a dewdrop to develop into
vast and numberless oceans, to infuse into every letter such a force as to
empower it to unfold all the knowledge of past and future ages. This, in
truth, is a matter simple of accomplishment. Such have been the evidences
of My power from the beginning that hat
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