Praise be to God Who hath ever caused His Names and
Attributes to penetrate the degrees of existence; Who hath made the effects of
those Names and Attributes to shine resplendent and their signs to be firmly
established in both the hidden and manifest worlds. By them He hath made the
holy realities that are informed by His grace and are the recipients of His outpourings
to be the sole revealers of all that pertaineth unto Him, and hath caused them
to move through the firmament of perfection in arcs of descent and ascent. He
hath ordained these Names and Attributes to be the first and foremost origin
and cause of being in the world of creation and the source of the different
grades of realities in the degrees of existence. When, through its power of
attraction and propagation, the Day-Star of Names and Attributes shone upon the
hidden realities in the heart of the unseen realm, they issued forth, were
spread abroad, scattered about, set in order, became the recipients of the
grace of God and His outpourings, and were made to be the sole manifestations
of the Divine conditions and Eternal signs. Emerging from behind the veils,
they appeared clothed in raiments of light, moving in the firmament of the
unity of God, in orbits of sanctity and circles of glorification.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablet of
Universe’)
