O God! O God! Verily, verily the
reality of Thy Oneness is sanctified above ascent or descent, and the Sun of
Thy Singleness is holy above appearance or disappearance. Thou hast been in the
mystery of Thine Identity and the eternality of Thine Existence; moving in the
exaltation of Thy Sanctity and the loftiness of Thy Purity. The souls who
penetrate through the facts of life cannot know Thee, and the minds which are
imbued with the subtleties of the universe do not apprehend Thee. Far from the
spiders of imagination to weave the web of their weak thoughts in the imperial
palaces of Thy Knowledge, and far from the birds of understanding to attempt
soaring with their broken wings toward the golden apex of Thine Explanation!
Verily, all the wings of effort are broken and will not reach the glorious
heaven of Thy Singleness. The intellects are bewildered and if they cannot
comprehend one verse of the verses of Thine Omnipotence, how then can they
perceive Thy Reality which surrounds all things and is not surrounded! Thy Holy
and Sanctified Identity is beyond the knowledge of the wisest and mightiest in
the world of emanation! (‘Abdu’l-Baha, Star of the West, vol. 1, no. 7, July 13,
1910)
