Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur/Page1/Crawford13
Therefore, upon the completion of Moses’ term of exile in the Midyan of the divine Will, He returned with His people and entered the precinct of Sinai within the Vale of Holiness from the Right Hand Quarter of Paradise through the Shore of Eternity. At that moment He heard the Call out of the Hidden Chamber of the Most High from the direction of the Divine Essence: “O Moses, Behold! What do ye see? I am indeed God, thy Lord and the Lord of thy forefathers, Ishmael, Isaac, and Jacob.” Then Moses veiled His face out of fear for God, the Mighty, the Most Powerful, the Self Subsisting. Then calling once again near the Shore of the Ocean of Majesty within the Crimson Canopy: “Raise thy head, O Moses!” And as He raised His head a Light was made to shine and radiate from the Tree of the Farthest Limit within the Verdant Vale. Then He was guided aright by virtue of the Guidance of Might from the Fire of Blazing Glory around the Bush of Eternity. Then He removed the sandals of vainglory, withdrawing Himself from the clutches of the latter and former times. All of which God enjoined upon Him, just as ye recite from the Tablets. As a result His Command was raised and His Remembrance exalted, and He became of those who, by way of the Lights of the Fire, turn unto the Pathways of Justice. This is that which hath been enjoined upon Moses, the Son of ‘Imran, in the Canopy of Zaman, did ye but know.