HE WHO KNOWETH HIS BEING HATH KNOWN HIS LORD GOD 13 страница
27.
Lo! They are, in truth, enslaved to idle imaginings.
28.
We shall now cease using the eloquent language. [of formal Persian]
29.
Truly thy Lord is the Potent, the Unconstrained.
30.
We would wish to speak in the Persian tongue that perchance the people of Persia, one and all, may become aware of the utterances of the merciful Lord,
and come forth to discover the Truth.
Tablet of Brilliances CHAPTER TWO
Divisions 31-65
BRILLIANCES
The first Brilliance
31.
The first Brilliance which hath dawned from the Daystar of Truth is the knowledge of God—exalted be His glory.
32.
And the knowledge of the King of everlasting days can in no wise be attained
except by recognizing Him Who is the Bearer of the Most Great Name.
33.
He is, in truth, the Speaker on Sinai Who is now seated upon the throne of Revelation.
34.
He is the Hidden Mystery and the Treasured Symbol.
35.
All the former and latter Books of God are adorned with His praise and extol His glory.
36.
Through Him the standard of knowledge hath been planted in the world
and the ensign of the oneness of God hath been unfurled amidst all peoples.
37.
Attainment unto the Divine Presence can be realized solely by attaining His presence.
38.
Through His potency everything that hath, from time immemorial, been veiled and hidden,
is now revealed.
39.
He is made manifest through the power of Truth and hath uttered a Word whereby all that are in the heavens and on the earth have been dumbfounded,
except those whom the Almighty was pleased to exempt.
40.
True belief in God and recognition of Him cannot be complete
except by acceptance of that which He hath revealed
and by observance of whatsoever hath been decreed by Him
and set down in the Book by the Pen of Glory.
41.
They that immerse themselves in the ocean of His utterances should at all times have the utmost regard for the divinely-revealed ordinances and prohibitions.
42.
Indeed His ordinances constitute the mightiest stronghold for the protection of the world and the safeguarding of its peoples—a light upon those who acknowledge and recognize the truth, and a fire unto such as turn away and deny.
The second Brilliance
43.
The second Tajallí is to remain steadfast in the Cause of God—exalted be His glory—
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and to be unswerving in His love.
44.
And this can in no wise be attained except through full recognition of Him;
and full recognition cannot be obtained save by faith in the blessed words:
45.
“He doeth whatsoever He willeth.”
46.
Whoso tenaciously cleaveth unto this sublime word
and drinketh deep from the living waters of utterance which are inherent therein,
will be imbued with such a constancy
that all the books of the world will be powerless to deter him from the Mother Book.
47.
O how glorious is this sublime station,
this exalted rank, this ultimate purpose!
48.
O ‘Alí-Akbar!
Consider how abject is the state of the disbelievers.
49.
They all give utterance to the words:
50.
“Verily He is to be praised in His deeds and is to be obeyed in His behest.”
51.
Nevertheless if We reveal anything which, even to the extent of a needle’s eye,
runneth counter to their selfish ways and desires,
they will disdainfully reject it.
52.
Say,
none can ever fathom the manifold exigencies of God’s consummate wisdom.
53.
In truth, were He to pronounce the earth to be heaven,
no one hath the right to question His authority.
54.
This is that whereunto the Point of the Bayán hath testified in all that was sent down unto Him with truth at the behest of God, He Who hath caused the Dawn to break.
The third Brilliance
55.
The third Brilliance is concerning arts, crafts and sciences.
56.
Knowledge is as wings to man’s life, and a ladder for his ascent.
57.
Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.
58.
The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words.
59.
Great indeed is the claim of scientists and craftsmen on the peoples of the world.
60.
Unto this beareth witness the Mother Book on the day of His return.
61.
Happy are those possessed of a hearing ear.
62.
In truth, knowledge is a veritable treasure for man,
and a source of glory, of bounty, of joy, of exaltation, of cheer and gladness unto him.
63.
Thus hath the Tongue of Grandeur spoken in this Most Great Prison.
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The fourth Brilliance
64.
The fourth brilliance is concerning Divinity, Godhead and the like.
65.
Were a man of insight to direct his gaze towards the blessed, the manifest Lote-Tree and its fruits,
he would be so enriched thereby as to be independent of aught else
and to acknowledge his belief
in that which the Speaker on Sinai hath uttered from the throne of Revelation.
Tablet of Brilliances CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 66-90
BRILLIANCES
66.
O ‘Alí-Akbar!
Acquaint the people with the holy verses of thy Lord
and make known unto them His straight Path, His mighty Announcement.
67.
Say:
O people,
if ye judge fairly and equitably,
ye will testify to the truth of whatsoever hath streamed forth from the Most Exalted Pen.
68.
If ye be of the people of the Bayán,
the Persian Bayán will guide you aright and will prove a sufficient testimony unto you;
69.
and if ye be of the people of the Qur’án, ponder ye upon the Revelation on Sinai and the Voice from the Bush which came unto the Son of ‘Imrán (Moses).
70.
Gracious God!
It was intended that at the time of the manifestation of the One true God the faculty of recognizing Him would have been developed and matured and would have reached its culmination.
71.
However, it is now clearly demonstrated
that in the disbelievers this faculty hath remained undeveloped, and hath indeed degenerated.
72.
O ‘Alí!
That which they accepted from the Bush
they now refuse to accept from Him Who is the Tree of the world of existence.
73.
Say,
O people of the Bayán,
speak not according to the dictates of passion and selfish desire.
74.
Most of the peoples of the earth attest the truth of the blessed Word which hath come forth from the Bush.
75.
By the righteousness of God! Except for the anthem of praise
voiced by Him Who heralded the divine Revelation,
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this wronged [servant] would never have breathed a word which might have struck terror into the hearts of the ignorant and caused them to perish.
76.
Dwelling on the glorification of Him Whom God shall make manifest
—exalted be His Manifestation—
the Báb in the beginning of the Bayán saith:
77.
“He is the One Who shall proclaim under all conditions,
78.
“Verily, verily, I am God,
no God is there but Me, the Lord of all created things.
79.
In truth all others except Me are My creatures.
80.
O, My creatures!
Me alone do ye worship.’”
81.
Likewise in another instance,
He, magnifying the Name of Him Who shall be made manifest, saith,
82.
“I would be the first to adore Him.”
83.
Now it behooveth one to reflect upon the significance of the “Adorer” and the “Adored One,”
that perchance the people of the earth may partake of a drop from the ocean of divine knowledge
and may be enabled to perceive the greatness of this Revelation.
84.
Verily, He hath appeared and hath unloosed His tongue to proclaim the Truth.
85.
Well is it with him who doth acknowledge and recognize the truth,
and woe betide the froward and the wayward.
86.
O kindreds of the earth!
Incline your ears unto the Voice from the divine Lote-Tree which overshadoweth the world,
87.
and be not of the people of tyranny on earth
88.
—men who have repudiated the Manifestation of God and His invincible authority
and have renounced His favors—
89.
they in truth are reckoned with the contemptible in the Book of God, the Lord of all mankind.
90.
The Glory which hath dawned above the horizon of My tender mercy rest upon thee
and upon whosoever is with thee
and giveth ear to thy words concerning the Cause of God, the Almighty, the All-Praised.
Tablet of the Manifestation CHAPTER ONE
Divisions 1-25
Date uncertain, from the latter Akka years 1868-1892
MANIFESTATION
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1.
In the Name of God!
The Most Holy, the All-Knowing! The Mighty!
2.
O thou who art gazing toward the direction of God
and submerged in His Nearness and Good-pleasure!
3.
Know thou that, verily,
the "Manifestation" is not composed of the four elements (earth, water, fire,air)
nay, rather, He is the Mystery of Oneness, of the Ancient Identity,
the Eternal Essence and the Unknowable Reality,
and that, verily, He can never be known by any other save Himself.
4.
Therefore, one can never realize that He hath appeared from any of the four elements,
or from any of the substances mentioned by the tongues of philosophers,
or from any of the four expressions of nature, such as heat, cold, dry and wet,
5.
inasmuch as all these are created by His Command and Will,
which has never been nor shall ever be separate from all else;
6.
even as He is now, in truth, on the throne of excellence and in revealed verses unto thee,
which are creative in kindling the fire of Love within they heart.
7.
Is there anything endowed with utterance in the world that may be able to speak with Him?
8.
Or any revealer to arise with Him in His Cause?
Or any existing thing to claim existence for itself?
9.
No, by the Lord, the Clement!
All are evanescent and as nothingness!
10.
Were one to be known by any beside Him,
it would never be proven to have its essence sanctified from any similitude,
its identity purified from likeness and its singleness from any created appearance.
11.
He is the Sea upon which no one can sail,
inasmuch as all that thou mayest see in heaven and earth is created by His Word.
12.
By Myself, the True One! Were His servants to know Him as He is to be known,
they would all sever themselves from everything,
and would make themselves subject to Him, their King,
13.
and the sultans would abandon their crowns
and hasten toward His direction in the path of His good pleasure;
14.
but since He is hidden from them, they have fixed their gaze upon others beside,
and are flying with the wings of eagles, in the sky of their superstitions and vain imaginings.
15.
Testify thou with thine own essence, then with thyself, and then with the tongue,
that, verily, there is no God but He!
16.
No other save Himself can know Him, and no one can ever approach Him!
17.
Verily, He is not a Manifestation in Himself,
but rather He is a Manifestation in His Identity,
and this is what We have mentioned to thee in the Divine Mystery, and in the Eternal Essence.
18.
As to the bodies, verily, they are as thrones for His Manifestation,
of which no one is informed save Himself!
19.
These bodies although they have appeared in the world of creation,
in the Temple in which ye have been informed of (Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, etc.)
yet were ye to gaze upon them with the eye of reality and innate consciousness,
20.
ye would testify that although they are created from the elements,
[yet] they are sanctified from them to such an extent that there is no similitude between them.
21.
Consider the diamond -- can the stone be compared to it?
22.
Thus hath appeared in El-Bayan, from the presence of thy Lord,
the Mighty, the Powerful, the Potentate!
23.
Were they not to be their Temples,
the bodies of His servants would not have been created.
24.
Wert thou minutely to consider, thou wouldst find that, verily,
all in heaven and earth are created from Their Outward Temples,
25.
and that all the worlds of [ [creation] ] they Lord seek help from the Manifestation of God,
the Protector, the Self-Subsistent!
Tablet of the Manifestation CHAPTER TWO
Divisions 26-50
MANIFESTATION
26.
In every world, He appears according to the capacity of that world.
27.
For example, in the world of spirits He manifests Himself to them
and appears unto them with the signs of the Spirit.
28.
So, likewise, in bodies in the world of names and attributes;
and in the worlds which are not known to any save God.
29.
All of these worlds have their position from this Manifestation.
30.
He appears unto them in His Form, so that He, their Lord,
may direct them, and draw them nearer to the seat of His Command,
and cause them to attain to that which was ordained for them.
31.
As His Reality is not known,
so likewise all that is related to Him is not known, except to a certain degree.
32.
Think over thine own identity.
33.
Would it not consist in the expansion and order of the five senses?
34.
Otherwise the limbs would become inactive;
the eye would never see, the ear would never hear,
the tongue would never speak,
35.
the hand would never grasp and the form would never move,
-- although He sways and rules over all,
for God has made the use of all dependent upon Him.
36.
Yet He sees through the eye, hears through the ear, and speaks by the tongue.
37.
Wert thou to reflect upon this, thou wouldst find even this to be His Guidance
in such manner that His dignity is not defective through these attachments and instruments.
38.
Consider a goldsmith;
verily, he makes a ring, and although he is the maker, yet he adorns his finger with it.
39.
Likewise God the Exalted, appears in the clothing of His creatures.
40.
This is through His favor, so that His servants may not flee from Him,
but that they may approach Him and rest in His Presence,
41.
hear His wonderful melodies and be benefitted by that which proceeds from His mouth,
and by that which He reveals unto them from the Heaven of His Will.
42.
There is wisdom in this. Wert thou to reflect upon it with the duration of God,
thou wouldst discover at every moment that which thou hadst not found before.
43.
Verily, were God the Exalted to appear in His (proper) grade and form,
and in a manner befitting His Station,
no one could ever approach Him or endure to be near Him.
44.
For example, consider the throne, the seat and the chair.
45.
All of these are made by certain of His creatures,
through the confirmation which descends upon them
from the heavens of His grace and clouds of His Bounty.
46.
He establishes Himself upon them.
47.
Before He is seated no one knows them, or consides them important,
for they find them simply articles made by their own hands;
48.
yet when He is established upon them, every relation is cut from them
49.
and they become the Throne of the Merciful God,
and the realities of all things that are created in heaven revolve around them.
50.
Then only the most discerning, the most perceiving of the percieving, can realize their value.
Tablet of the Manifestation CHAPTER THREE
Divisions 51-80
THE MANIFESTATION
51.
Every one who is endowed with a clear insight will behold that They (the Manifestations)
were created before the creation of heaven and earth,
and that this has ever been the Throne of the Merciful, and will forever be as it was;
52.
that there is no relation, connection, similarity or reference between that Throne and all else save it,
53.
and that all things testify with their inmost tongue;
"Verily, these (bodies) are the Thrones of the Merciful One."
54.
They have no like in creation, nor any equal in the world of emanation.
55.
From their elements all have appeared in such wise that thou wilt find that, verily,
from their Fire fire hath appeared in the universe and hath spoken in the Blessed Branch of Unity,
in the lofty Sinai of Moses the Interlocutor,
and that from their Waters thou findest every soul living and immortal.
56.
So, likewise, after this manner, consider its other elements;
but with manifest certainty.
57.
This was the mention of the place whereon He was established.
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