Persian Hidden Words #13
June 30th, 2009
O MY CHILDREN!
I fear lest, bereft of the melody of the dove of heaven, ye will sink back to the shades of utter loss, and, never having gazed upon the beauty of the rose, return to water and clay.~ Baha’u'llah, The Persian Hidden Words #13
I had to read this one through several times… the images that stand out to me are the ‘dove of heaven’ and to ‘sink back to the shades of utter loss’. I can see in this the sadness and disappointment if we were to never see the beauty of God, or to hear that wonderful ‘melody of the dove of heaven’. If we were never to do those things, it would seem that we would even cease to be human and return to our elemental materials.