Insights from this prayer by
Baha’u’llah
- In God’s creation there is a “Center” “Which is wholly subjected to… [God’s] sovereignty, Which adoreth…[God’s] Beauty, and is propelled through the movement of…[God’s] Pen.
- This “Center” attracts to Its orbit:
- “The loftiest sentiments which the holiest of saints can express in praise of” God; and
- “the deepest wisdom which the most learned of men can utter in their attempts to comprehend” God’s “nature”.
- Even though this “Center” is “propelled through the movement of” God’s “Pen” there is no “existence of any direct relationship between the Pen of” God’s “Revelation and the essence of all created things.” “Far, far are They Who are related to Thee [God] above the conception of such relationship!”
Question: Could
this “Center” be the “Primal Will of God” that each Manifestation of God
presents gradually to humanity? What about the “Pen”? Does that also refer to
the Manifestation of God or to the Entity acting on the “Primal Will of God”?
- Baha’u’llah reminds us that “All comparisons and likenesses fail to do justice to the Tree of Thy [God’s] Revelation, and every way is barred to the comprehension of the Manifestation of Thy [God’s] Self and the Day Spring of Thy [God’s] Beauty.”
- So we, as human beings, can never really comprehend the relationship between God and His Manifestations or the nature of the Manifestation Himself.
- No one else besides Thee [God] hath, at any time, been able to fathom Thy[God’s] mystery, or befittingly to extol Thy[God’s] greatness.”
- “Unsearchable and high above the praise of men wilt Thou [God] remain for ever. There is none other God but Thee, the Inaccessible, the Omnipotent, the Omniscient, the Holy of Holies.”
