Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words to Dr. Coles and Archdeacon Dowling, spoken on 1914-01-01

30 words

Notes:

partially paraphrased

Translation:

Provisional translation

Imagine a little lamb surrounded by a hundred thousand wolves, threatening to tear it to pieces at every moment. Were it not for the eternal vigilance of the Divine Powers, man could not live for one second.

Translations (1)

DAS. Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914

DAS.1914-01-01

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=112