Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.

Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.