That concealed Word upon which the souls of all the
Messengers of God and His Chosen Ones have ever depended hath manifested itself
out of the invisible world into the visible plane. No sooner had this hidden
Word shone forth from the Realm of inmost being and absolute singleness to
illumine the peoples of the earth than a breeze of mercy wafted therefrom,
purifying all things from the stench of sin and arraying the countless forms of
existence and the reality of man with the vesture of forgiveness. So great was
the wondrous grace which pervaded all things that through the utterance of the
letters “B” and “E” the gems that lay hid within the repositories of this
contingent world were brought forth and made manifest. Thus were the seen and
the unseen joined in one garment, and the hidden and the manifest clothed in a
single robe; thus did utter nothingness attain the realm of eternity, and pure
evanescence gain admittance into the court of everlasting life.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days
of Remembrance)
