"Have ye thought Me heedless or that I was unaware?"

 

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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, #65 Persian)
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" ... every one of you knoweth his own self better than he knoweth others."

 

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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, #66 Persian)
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" ... the satanic secrets and deeds done in the gloom of night shall be laid bare and manifest before the peoples of the world."

 

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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, #67 Persian)
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"Far, far are ye from that which ye desire."

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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, #68 Persian)
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"Strive that your deeds may be cleansed from the dust of self and hypocrisy and find favor at the court of glory ..."

 

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O CHILDREN OF ADAM!

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory. Strive that your deeds may be cleansed from the dust of self and hypocrisy and find favor at the court of glory; for ere long the assayers of mankind shall, in the holy presence of the Adored One, accept naught but absolute virtue and deeds of stainless purity. This is the daystar of wisdom and of divine mystery that hath shone above the horizon of the divine will. Blessed are they that turn thereunto.

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, #69 Persian)
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"Shouldst thou attain this station, thou wouldst be freed from destruction and death, from toil and sin."

 

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O SON OF WORLDLINESS!

Pleasant is the realm of being, wert thou to attain thereto; glorious is the domain of eternity, shouldst thou pass beyond the world of mortality; sweet is the holy ecstasy if thou drinkest of the mystic chalice from the hands of the celestial Youth. Shouldst thou attain this station, thou wouldst be freed from destruction and death, from toil and sin.

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, #70 Persian)
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"Call ye to mind that covenant ye have entered into with Me upon Mount Párán ..."

 

O MY FRIENDS!

Call ye to mind that covenant ye have entered into with Me upon Mount Párán, situate within the hallowed precincts of Zamán. I have taken to witness the concourse on high and the dwellers in the city of eternity, yet now none do I find faithful unto the covenant. Of a certainty pride and rebellion have effaced it from the hearts, in such wise that no trace thereof remaineth. Yet knowing this, I waited and disclosed it not.

(Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, #71 Persian)
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