n be compared to the spring; whenever it comes, the
world passes from one condition to another. Through the advent of the
season of spring the black earth and the fields and wildernesses will
become verdant and blooming, and all sorts of flowers and sweet-scented
herbs will grow; the trees will have new life, and new fruits will appear,
and a new cycle is founded. The appearance of the Holy Spirit is like
this. Whenever it appears, it renews the world of humanity and gives a new
spirit to the human realities: it arrays the world of existence in a
praiseworthy garment, dispels the darkness of ignorance, and causes the
radiation of the light of perfections. Christ with this power has renewed
this cycle; the heavenly spring with the utmost freshness and sweetness
spread its tent in the world of humanity, and the life-giving breeze
perfumed the nostrils of the enlightened ones.

In the same way, the appearance of Baha'u'llah was like a new springtime
which appeared with holy breezes, with the hosts of everlasting life, and
with heavenly power. It established the Throne of the Divine Kingdom in
the center of the world and, by the power of the Holy Spirit, revived
souls and established a new cycle.

37: THE DIVINITY CAN ONLY BE COMPREHENDED THROUGH THE DIVINE
MANIFESTATIONS

Question.--What connection has the Reality of Divinity with the Lordly
Rising-places and the Divine Dawning-points?

Answer.--Know that the Reality of Divinity or the substance of the Essence
of Oneness is pure sanctity and absolute holiness--that is to say, it is
sanctified and exempt from all praise. The whole of the supreme attributes
of the degrees of existence, in reference to this plane, are only
imaginations. It is invisible, incomprehensible, inaccessible, a pure
essence which cannot be described, for the Divine Essence surrounds all
things. Verily, that which surrounds is greater than the surrounded, and
the surrounded cannot contain that by which it is surrounded, nor
comprehend its reality. However far mind may progress, though it may reach
to the final degree of comprehension, the limit of understanding, it
beholds the divine signs and attributes in the world of creation and not
in the world of God. For the essence and the attributes of the Lord of
Unity are in the heights of sanctity, and for the minds and understandings
there is no way to approach that position. "The way is closed, and seeking
is forbidden."

It is evident that