Bahá'u'lláh -- may my life, my soul, my spirit be offered up
as a sacrifice unto His lowly servants -- hath, during His last days on earth,
given the most emphatic promise that, through the outpourings of the grace of
God and the aid and assistance vouchsafed from His Kingdom on high, souls will
arise and holy beings appear who, as stars, would adorn the firmament of divine
guidance; illumine the dayspring of loving-kindness and bounty; manifest the
signs of the unity of God; shine with the light of sanctity and purity; receive
their full measure of divine inspiration; raise high the sacred torch of faith;
stand firm as the rock and immoveable as the mountain; and grow to become
luminaries in the heavens of His Revelation, mighty channels of His grace,
means for the bestowal of God's bountiful care, heralds calling forth the name
of the One true God, and establishers of the world's supreme foundation.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha’)
