" ... that thou mayest repose with Me beneath the canopy of majesty behind the tabernacle of glory."

 

© Chuck Egerton 2024

O SON OF BEING!

Seek a martyr’s death in My path, content with My pleasure and thankful for that which I ordain, that thou mayest repose with Me beneath the canopy of majesty behind the tabernacle of glory.

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, #45 Arabic)
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"Ponder and reflect. Is it thy wish to die upon thy bed, or to shed thy lifeblood on the dust, a martyr in My path ..."

photo by Trina G. 

 

O SON OF MAN!

Ponder and reflect. Is it thy wish to die upon thy bed, or to shed thy lifeblood on the dust, a martyr in My path, and so become the manifestation of My command and the revealer of My light in the highest paradise? Judge thou aright, O servant!

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, #46 Arabic)
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"To tinge thy hair with thy blood is greater in My sight than the creation of the universe and the light of both worlds."

 

blood stone

O SON OF MAN!

By My beauty! To tinge thy hair with thy blood is greater in My sight than the creation of the universe and the light of both worlds. Strive then to attain this, O servant!

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, #47 Arabic)
www.bahai.org/r/147382821

"For everything there is a sign."

 

Flora's Profile, Enslaved 1796 Stratford, Connecticut

O SON OF MAN!

For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words #48 Arabic)
www.bahai.org/r/200697020

"The true lover yearneth for tribulation ..."

winter solstice

O SON OF MAN!

The true lover yearneth for tribulation even as doth the rebel for forgiveness and the sinful for mercy.

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words. #49 Arabic)
www.bahai.org/r/930638360

"If trials afflict thee not in thy longing to meet Me, how wilt thou attain the light in thy love for My beauty?"

 

photo by Margarete P.

O SON OF MAN!

If adversity befall thee not in My path, how canst thou walk in the ways of them that are content with My pleasure? If trials afflict thee not in thy longing to meet Me, how wilt thou attain the light in thy love for My beauty?

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, # 50 Arabic)
www.bahai.org/r/472999964

in memory of Dennis Cline

"Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit."

 

photo by trina G.

O SON OF MAN!

My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, #51 Arabic)
www.bahai.org/r/746355706