Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur/Page1/Crawford6

At that moment the creation of the realm of divine Sovereignty was completed and the capacities in the manifestations of all living beings were weighed, to the extent that the entire creation could reveal with the tongue of the essences within themselves that He is the Eternal, the Everlasting, the Creator, the Most Powerful, the Mighty, the Sovereign. And that ‘Alí before Muhammad is the manifestation of the divine Self and the manifestation of the divine Attributes, from Whom began the unlimited possibilities of all things, and to Whom the essences of all things return. He it is Who, by virtue of His Own Self, is the Munificent Soul of the All-Merciful, through Whom the essences and capacities in the world of possibility and the manifestations of all living beings in the realm of existence were brought forth. And the mirrors reflect the image of Him and the Letters relate the message about Him as the First of the Creation of God, the Beginning of the Manifestations, and the Return of the Servants in the Day of Mutual Calling. Thus hath God distinguished Them above the circuit of creation in the realm of Pre-Existence.