I swear by Thy glory and Thy sovereignty which overshadow
the kingdoms of earth and of heaven! Were any of Thy chosen Ones and Thy
Messengers to meditate on the manifold evidences of Thy most exalted Pen—a Pen
which is driven by the fingers of Thy will—and were he to muse on its
mysteries, and its tokens, and all that it showeth forth, he would be so
perplexed that his tongue would fail to extol and describe Thee, and his heart
would be utterly unable to understand Thee. For he would, at one time, discover
that from this Pen there floweth out unto all created things the water that is
life indeed, and that the Pen itself hath been named by Thee the trumpet
whereby the dead speed out of their sepulchers. At another time he would find
that there proceedeth from this Pen such fire as Thine own Revelation can
kindle, and as He Who conversed with Thee (Moses) on Sinai hath perceived.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
