Hath thy pomp made thee proud?
By My Life! It shall not endure; nay, it shall soon pass away, unless thou holdest fast by this firm Cord.

We see abasement hastening after thee, whilst thou art of the heedless.
Needless to say, Napoleon, who was then at the zenith of his power, paid no heed to this warning.

In the following year he went to war with Prussia, firmly convinced that his troops could easily gain Berlin; but the tragedy foretold by Baha'u'llah overwhelmed him.

He was defeated at Saarbruck, at Weisenburg, at Metz, and finally in the crushing catastrophe at Sedan.

He was then carried prisoner to Prussia, and came to a miserable end in England two years later.