O maid-servant of God! Verily, all existence is [a book of]
pages and tablets which utter the glad-tidings of the appearance of the Kingdom
of thy Lord, the Supreme, the Great.
Observe the pages of the universe and discover the traces
which appeared! Hast thou seen or heard in any of the previous centuries or
generations that which is manifested in this Glorious Age? If the writings of
the previous centuries, the middle centuries and the later centuries, be
compared with that which is manifested in this single century, they will not
weigh against it! nay, rather, they are as drops of water in comparison with
the ocean. Magnified is He, who hath crowned this century with the appearance
of His Kingdom!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha ('Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1)
