CHAPTER 10:
THE LORD of HISTORY
All things are begotten of God. He is the source of all creation, its designer and its sustainer, its protector and its ruler. All that is has come into being by His wish, has appeared according to His plan, has been manifested according to His time. All that is to be will likewise proceed from Him (136:1)

God alone can comprehend Himself. He alone can perceive His stature. He alone can estimate His excellence. None but Him can do this. He has no peer or equal. None can assist Him; none can resist Him: (136:2)

He hath, from everlasting, dwelt in His inaccessible habitation of holiness and glory, and will unto everlasting continue to be enthroned upon the heights of His independent sovereignty and grandeur. Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 261 (136:3)

Limitations of time and space can not approach His sanctified presence. Eternity itself is a mere creation of His; the vastness of the heavens, but His handiwork. Infinite is His knowledge, infinite His power, infinite His bounty. He neither toils nor spins, but with perfect ease accomplishes anything: (136:4)

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. Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 61 (136:5)

God has created, and His creation stands utterly in need of Him. Like the blade of grass that cannot exist without the sustaining light of the sun, all created things are dependent for their very existence upon His sustaining grace. Were it to be withheld, no created thing could exist (136:6)

But His grace is not withheld. It is shed unceasingly (136:7)

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