besides Him hath ever been able to sing adequately His praise, nor will
any man succeed at any time in describing the full measure of His glory.
Who is it that can claim to have attained the heights of His exalted
Essence, and what mind can measure the depths of His unfathomable mystery?
From each and every revelation emanating from the Source of His glory,
holy and never-ending evidences of unimaginable splendor have appeared,
and out of every manifestation of His invincible power oceans of eternal
light have outpoured. How immensely exalted are the wondrous testimonies
of His almighty sovereignty, a glimmer of which, if it but touched them,
would utterly consume all that are in the heavens and in the earth! How
indescribably lofty are the tokens of His consummate power, a single sign
of which, however inconsiderable, must transcend the comprehension of
whatsoever hath, from the beginning that hath no beginning, been brought
into being, or will be created in the future till the end that hath no
end. All the Embodiments of His Names wander in the wilderness of search,
athirst and eager to discover His Essence, and all the Manifestations of
His Attributes implore Him, from the Sinai of Holiness, to unravel His
mystery.

A drop of the billowing ocean of His endless mercy hath adorned all
creation with the ornament of existence, and a breath wafted from His
peerless Paradise hath invested all beings with the robe of His sanctity
and glory. A sprinkling from the unfathomed deep of His sovereign and
all-pervasive Will hath, out of utter nothingness, called into being a
creation which is infinite in its range and deathless in its duration. The
wonders of His bounty can never cease, and the stream of His merciful
grace can never be arrested. The process of His creation hath had no
beginning, and can have no end.

In every age and cycle He hath, through the splendorous light shed by the