Blessed art thou, [1] and blessed he that turneth unto thee,
and visiteth thy grave, and draweth nigh, through thee, unto God, the Lord of
all that was and shall be.... I testify that thou didst return in meekness unto
thine abode. Great is thy blessedness and the blessedness of them that hold
fast unto the hem of thy outspread robe.... Thou art, verily, the trust of God
and His treasure in this land. Erelong will God reveal through thee that which
He hath desired. He, verily, is the Truth, the Knower of things unseen. When
thou wast laid to rest in the earth, the earth itself trembled in its longing
to meet thee. Thus hath it been decreed, and yet the people perceive not....
Were We to recount the mysteries of thine ascension, they that are asleep would
waken, and all beings would be set ablaze with the fire of the remembrance of
My Name, the Mighty, the Loving.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a
letter dated December 21, 1939; ‘Messages to America’)
[1] The Purest Branch