hty, Who hath shed upon it the radiance of His Own Self, shining
forth from His most august station. He hath moreover deposited within the
realities of all created things the emblem of His recognition, that
everyone may know of a certainty that He is the Beginning and the End, the
Manifest and the Hidden, the Maker and the Sustainer, the Omnipotent and
the All-Knowing, the One Who heareth and perceiveth all things, He Who is
invincible in His power and standeth supreme in His Own identity, He Who
quickeneth and causeth to die, the All-Powerful, the Inaccessible, the
Most Exalted, the Most High. Every revelation of His divine Essence
betokens the sublimity of His glory, the loftiness of His sanctity, the
inaccessible height of His oneness and the exaltation of His majesty and
power. His beginning hath had no beginning other than His Own firstness
and His end knoweth no end save His Own lastness. I, 1.

"The revelation of the Divine Reality hath everlastingly ..."

The revelation of the Divine Reality hath everlastingly been identical
with its concealment and its concealment identical with its revelation.
That which is intended by 'Revelation of God' is the Tree of divine Truth
that betokeneth none but Him, and it is this divine Tree that hath raised
and will raise up Messengers, and hath revealed and will ever reveal
Scriptures. From eternity unto eternity this Tree of divine Truth hath
served and will ever serve as the throne of the revelation and concealment
of God among His creatures, and in every age is made manifest through
whomsoever He pleaseth. At the time of the revelation of the Qur'an He
asserted His transcendent power through the advent of Muhammad, and on the
occasion of the revelation of the Bayan He demonstrated His sovereign
might through the appearance of the Point of the Bayan, and when He Whom
God shall make manifest will shine forth, it will be through Him that He
will vindicate the truth of His Faith, as He pleaseth, with whatsoever He
pleaseth and for whatsoever He pleaseth. He is with all things, yet
nothing is with Him. He is not within a thing nor above it nor beside it.
Any reference to His being established upon the throne implieth that the
Exponent of His Revelation is established upon the seat of transcendent
authority...

He hath everlastingly existed and will everlastingly continue to exist. He
hath been and will ever remain inscrutable unto all men, inasmuch as all
else besides Hi