— When I read this little paragraph from Bahá’u’lláh’s “Tablet to the Christians” I pictured all the (over one hundred volumes) books and tablets from His Pen revealed in Persia, Baghdád, Constantinople, Adrianople, and ‘Akka in the Holy Land, floating out, calling from the Middle East to remind people to seek the Promised One, That light circled the world, and followers rose up in the West who traveled to every country and island to bring that Message to anyone who was prepared to investigate for themselves. It is a testament to those early believers in the latter half of the 19th century, who arose and left the careers and comforts of their native lands to make this good news available to anyone who might be stirred to “seek and ye shall find.” Hence the light from the East, those messengers carrying the Sacred Tablets flying out across the globe to far-away lands in my painting from this verse:

“Say: In the East the light of His Revelation hath broken; in the West have appeared the signs of His dominion. Ponder this in your hearts, O people, and be not of those who have turned a deaf ear to the admonitions of Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Praised. Let the Breeze of God awaken you. Verily, it hath wafted over the world. Well is it with him that hath discovered the fragrance thereof and been accounted among the well-assured.”
— Bahá’u’lláh’s “Tablet to the Christians”
(full text at: https://www.bahai.us/community/writings/tablet-to-the-christians )