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Him Who shineth above the Dayspring of Sanctity! The friends of God
have not, nor will they ever, set their hopes upon the world and its
ephemeral possessions. The one true God hath ever regarded the hearts of
men as His own, His exclusive possession -- and this too but as an
expression of His all-surpassing mercy, that haply mortal souls may be
purged and sanctified from all that pertaineth to the world of dust and
gain admittance into the realms of eternity. For otherwise that ideal
King is, in Himself and by Himself, sufficient unto Himself and
independent of all things. Neither doth the love of His creatures profit
Him, nor can their malice harm Him. All have issued forth from abodes
of dust, and unto dust shall they return, while the one true God, alone
and single, is established upon His Throne, a Throne which is beyond the
reaches of time and space, is sanctified above all utterance or
expression, intimation, description and definition, and is exalted
beyond all notion of abasement and glory. And none knoweth this save Him
and those with whom is the knowledge of the Book. No God is there but
Him, the Almighty, the All-Bountiful. Baha'u'llah,
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