… Jesus said: “Ye must be born again.” Again He saith:
“Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit.” The purport of these words is that whosoever in
every dispensation is born of the Spirit and is quickened by the breath of the
Manifestation of Holiness, he verily is of those that have attained unto “life”
and “resurrection” and have entered into the “paradise” of the love of God. And
whosoever is not of them, is condemned to “death” and “deprivation,” to the
“fire” of unbelief, and to the “wrath” of God. In all the scriptures, the books
and chronicles, the sentence of death, of fire, of blindness, of want of
understanding and hearing, hath been pronounced against those whose lips have
tasted not the ethereal cup of true knowledge, and whose hearts have been
deprived of the grace of the holy Spirit in their day. . Even as it hath been
previously recorded: “Hearts have they with which they understand not.”
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Book
of Certitude’)
