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| EMMANUEL! |
| From The Most Holy Tablet (also known as The Tablet to the Christians) Say, O followers of the Son! Have ye shut out yourselves from Me by reason of My Name? Wherefore ponder ye not in your hearts? Day and night ye have been calling upon your Lord, the Omnipotent, but when He came from the heaven of eternity in His great glory, ye turned aside from Him and remained sunk in heedlessness. Consider those who rejected the Spirit when He came unto them with manifest dominion. How numerous the Pharisees who had secluded themselves in synagogues in His name, lamenting over their separation from Him, and yet when the portals of reunion were flung open and the divine Luminary shone resplendent from the Dayspring of Beauty, they disbelieved in God, the Exalted, the Mighty. They failed to attain His presence, notwithstanding that His advent had been promised them in the Book of Isaiah as well as in the Books of the Prophets and the Messengers. No one from among them turned his face towards the Dayspring of divine bounty except such as were destitute of any power amongst men. And yet, today, every man endowed with power and invested with sovereignty prideth himself on His Name. Moreover, call thou to mind the one who sentenced Jesus to death. He was the most learned of his age in his own country, whilst he who was only a fisherman believed in Him. Take good heed and be of them that observe the warning. -Baha'u'llah |
| O Come, O Come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appears Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee O Israel O come, thou rod of Jesse, free Thine own from Satan's tyranny From depths of of hell thy people save And give them victory o'er the grave Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee O Israel O come, O Dayspring, come and cheer Our spirits by thine advent here And drive away the shaves of night And pierce the clouds and bring us light Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee O Israel O come, Thou Key of David, come And open wide our heavenly home Make safe the way that leads on high And close the path to misery Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee O Israel O come, O come, Thou Lord of might Who to thy tribes, on Sinai's height In ancient times did'st give the law In cloud and majesty and awe Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee O Israel |
| "Day and night ye have been calling upon your Lord, the Omnipotent, but when He came from the heaven of eternity in His great glory........" |
| Call out to Zion, O Carmel, and announce the joyful tidings: He that was hidden from mortal eyes is come! His all-conquering sovereignty is manifest; His all-encompassing splendour is revealed. -Tablet of Carmel -Baha'u'llah Emmanuel HAS come to thee O Israel! |
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| Right: Shrine of the Ba'b, Haifa, Israel The red roofed houses on the street below are remnants of the German Templar Colony, a Christian religious movement that moved to Israel, in the 1840's, to await Christ's return at the foot of "The Mountain of the Lord", Mt. Carmel. Carved on the outside of the houses, the Templars wrote "The Lord is Near" |