“Thy Book” and "the Hosts of the World"

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“Thou art He, O my Lord, Who hath, in every line of Thy Book, entered into covenant with them for me, and made it so sure that none of Thy creatures can any longer evade it.” 
  (Prayers and Meditations, p.180) [Emphasis added.]

n“One single letter of Thy Book is the mother of all utterances, and a word therefrom the begetter of all creation.”
(Prayers and Meditations, p. 245)  [Emphasis added.]

“hosts of the world”
n‘Know ye that by "the world" is meant your unawareness of Him Who is your Maker, and your absorption in aught else but Him.’
(Gleanings, CXXVIII, p. 276)


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n“Be watchful lest the concerns and preoccupations of this world prevent you from observing that which hath been enjoined upon you by Him Who is the Mighty, the Faithful.”  (Kitab-i-Aqdas, pp. 66-7)



[“Thy Book” appears 20 Times in P and M] /// ‘The "Book" is the record of the revealed Word of the Manifestations of God.’ (The Kitab-i-Aqdas, Notes, p. 231)

/// “Say: The Book of God hath been sent down in the form of this Youth.” (Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 104)