"Take from the hands of the divine Cup-bearer the chalice of immortal life ..."

"O SON OF DUST! Turn not away thine eyes from the matchless wine of the immortal Beloved, and open them not to foul and mortal dregs. Take from the hands of the divine Cup-bearer the chalice of immortal life, that all wisdom may be thine, and that thou mayest hearken unto the mystic voice calling from the realm of the invisible. Cry aloud, ye that are of low aim! Wherefore have ye turned away from My holy and immortal wine unto evanescent water?"

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, No. 62 Persian, pp. 43-44

" ...By My beauty! All your doings hath My pen graven with open characters upon tablets of chrysolite."

"O YE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD! Know, verily, that an unforeseen calamity followeth you, and grievous retribution awaiteth you. Think not that which ye have committed hath been effaced in My sight. By My beauty! All your doings hath My pen graven with open characters upon tablets of chrysolite."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, No. 63 Persian, p. 44

"O REBELLIOUS ONES!"

"O REBELLIOUS ONES! My forbearance hath emboldened you and My long-suffering hath made you negligent, in such wise that ye have spurred on the fiery charger of passion into perilous ways that lead unto destruction. Have ye thought Me heedless or that I was unaware?"

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, No. 65 Persian, pp. 44-45













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"A dewdrop out of the fathomless ocean of My mercy I have shed upon the peoples of the world ..."

"O SON OF MAN! A dewdrop out of the fathomless ocean of My mercy I have shed upon the peoples of the world, yet found none turn thereunto, inasmuch as every one hath turned away from the celestial wine of unity unto the foul dregs of impurity, and, content with mortal cup, hath put away the chalice of immortal beauty. Vile is that wherewith he is contented."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, No. 61 Persian, p. 43

"The tongue I have designed for the mention of Me, defile it not with detraction."

"O EMIGRANTS! The tongue I have designed for the mention of Me, defile it not with detraction. If the fire of self overcome you, remember your own faults and not the faults of My creatures, inasmuch as every one of you knoweth his own self better than he knoweth others."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, No. 66 Persian, p. 45

"O CHILDREN OF FANCY!"

"O CHILDREN OF FANCY! Know, verily, that while the radiant dawn breaketh above the horizon of eternal holiness, the satanic secrets and deeds done in the gloom of night shall be laid bare and manifest before the peoples of the world." -

 Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, No. 67 Persian, p. 45

... "Far, far are ye from that which ye desire."

"O WEED THAT SPRINGETH OUT OF DUST! Wherefore have not these soiled hands of thine touched first thine own garment, and why with thine heart defiled with desire and passion dost thou seek to commune with Me and to enter My sacred realm? Far, far are ye from that which ye desire."


-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, No. 68 Persian, p. 45