The Descent of the Messiah — Page 82
THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH heart and what it brought in? What words should I use to de- scribe these things, and how should I instil them in the hearts of others? The extraordinary favours through which He has drawn close to me, none knows them but I. The station of love where I am, none knows it but He. I truly believe that this progress and this relationship started with the Divine discourse whose sudden pull picked me up, just like a powerful wind picks up a straw from one place and carries it to another. So to ask me why the Word that has been revealed to me should not be considered the result of self-suggestion, is equivalent to saying that you should be considered mistaken in believing that you see with your eyes, speak with your tongue, and hear with your ears. Dear people! Realise that no one can give any credence to such arguments of denial who knows that after closing his eyes he will not be able to see anything, and after closing his ears he will not be able to hear a word, and if his tongue is cut off he will not be able to speak again? Or will he be saying that perhaps he does not see with eyes, hear with ears, or speak with the tongue? Such, too, is my condition. God's word that has descended and continues to descend upon me is my spiritual mother from whom I was born. It has given me a being that was not there be- fore, and it has bestowed upon me a soul that did not exist prior to this. I was raised in its lap like a child and it protected me from every stumbling block and saved me from every pitfall. The Word went ahead of me like a torch until I reached my desti- nation. There can be no greater injustice on my part than to say that it is not the word of God. I know it to be the Word of God as surely as I know that I speak with the tongue and hear with the ears. How can I deny it when it showed God to me, fed me with the water of knowledge like a sweet fountain, and comforted me in every time of suffocation like a cool breeze? It even de- scended upon me in languages I did not know, such as English, 82