Book I / II – (vii)

Bahaism

Here are a few extracts taken from the 'Hidden Words' of Baha-Ullah, a mystic Saint of Persia:

Oh Son of Love!

Thou art but one step away from the glorious heights above and from the celestial tree of love. Take thou one pace and with the next advance into the Immortal Realm and enter the Pavilion of Eternity. Give ear then to that which hath been revealed by the pen of glory.

Oh Essence of Negligence! Myriad of mystic tongues find utterance in one speech, and myriads of mysteries are revealed in a single melody; yet, alas! There is no ear to hear, nor heart to understand.

Oh Children of Negligence and Passion! […] Open your ears that ye may hearken unto the Word of God, the help in peril, the Self-Existent. 

Oh Son of Dust! […] Hearken unto the mystic voice calling from the Realm of the Invisible.

Oh Son of Being! Thou art My Lamp and My Light is in thee ]…]. I have created thee rich […] and within thee have I placed the essence of My Light.

Oh Son of Spirit! […] Alas! How strange and pitiful, for a mere cupful, they have turned away from the billowing seas of the Most High, and remained far from the most effulgent horizon. 

Oh Offspring of Dust! […] up from thy prison ascend unto the glorious meads above, and from thy mortal cage wing thy flight unto the paradise of the Placeless.

Oh Son of Spirit! Burst thy cage asunder, and even as the phoenix of love soar into the firmament of holiness. Renounce thyself and, filled with the spirit of mercy, abide in the realm of celestial sanctity.

Oh Son of Man! Ascend into My heaven, that thou mayest obtain the joy of reunion, and from the chalice of imperishable glory quaff the peerless wine.

Oh My Servant! […] This is the river of everlasting life that hath flowed from the well-spring of the pen of the merciful; well is it with them that drink!

Oh Son of Passion! Cleanse thyself from the defilement of riches and in perfect peace advance into the realm of poverty; that from the well-spring of detachment thou mayest quaff the wine of immortal life.

Oh Son of My Handmaid! Quaff from the tongue of the merciful the stream of divine Mystery […]