159 Beware lest thy sovereignty withhold thee from Him Who is the Supreme Sovereign.  He, verily, is come with His Kingdom, and all the atoms cry aloud:  “Lo!  The Lord is come in His great majesty!” He Who is the Father is come, and the Son, in the holy vale, crieth out:  “Here am I, here am I, O Lord, My God!”, whilst Sinai circleth round the House, and the Burning Bush calleth aloud:  “The All-Bounteous is come mounted upon the clouds!  Blessed is he that draweth nigh unto Him, and woe betide them that are far away.”

160 Arise thou amongst men in the name of this all-compelling Cause, and summon, then, the nations unto God, the Exalted, the Great.  Be thou not of them who called upon God by one of His names, but who, when He Who is the Object of all names appeared, denied Him and turned aside from Him, and, in the end, pronounced sentence against Him with manifest injustice.  Consider and call thou to mind the days whereon the Spirit of God appeared, and Herod gave judgement against Him.  God, however, aided Him with the hosts of the unseen, and protected Him with truth, and sent Him down unto another land, according to His promise.  He, verily, ordaineth what He pleaseth.  Thy Lord truly preserveth whom He willeth, be he in the midst of the seas, or in the maw of the serpent, or beneath the sword of the oppressor.

161 Blessed be the king whom the veils of glory have not deterred from turning unto the Dayspring of beauty and who hath forsaken his all in his desire to obtain the things of God.  He, indeed, is accounted in the sight of God as the most excellent of men, and is extolled by the inmates of paradise and them that circle morn and eve round the Throne on high.

162 Again I say:  Hearken unto My voice that calleth from My prison, that it may acquaint thee with the things that have befallen My Beauty, at the hands of them that are the manifestations of My glory, and that thou mayest perceive how great hath been My patience, notwithstanding My might, and how immense My forbearance, notwithstanding My power.  By My life!  Couldst thou but know the things sent down by My Pen, and discover the treasures of My Cause, and the pearls of My mysteries which lie hid in the seas of My names and in the goblets of My words, thou wouldst, in thy love for My name, and in thy longing for My glorious and sublime Kingdom, lay down thy life in My path.  Know thou that though My body be beneath the swords of My foes, and My limbs be beset with incalculable afflictions, yet My spirit is filled with a gladness with which all the joys of the earth can never compare.

163 Set thine heart towards Him Who is the Point of adoration for the world, and say:  “O peoples of the earth!  Have ye denied the One in Whose path He Who came with the truth, bearing the announcement of your Lord, the Exalted, the Great, suffered martyrdom?” Say:  This is an Announcement whereat the hearts of the Prophets and Messengers have rejoiced.  This is the One Whom the heart of the world remembereth, and is promised in the Books of God, the Mighty, the All-Wise.  The hands of the Messengers were, in their desire to meet Me, upraised towards God, the Mighty, the Glorified.  Unto this testifieth that which hath been sent down in the sacred Scriptures by Him Who is the Lord of might and power.