O ye peoples of the Kingdom! How many a soul expended all its span of life
in worship, endured the mortification of the flesh, longed to gain an
entry into the Kingdom, and yet failed, while ye, with neither toil nor
pain nor self-denial, have won the prize and entered in.
It is even as in the time of the Messiah, when the Pharisees and the pious
were left without a portion, while Peter, John and Andrew, given neither
to pious worship nor ascetic practice, won the day. Wherefore, thank ye
God for setting upon your heads the crown of glory everlasting, for
granting unto you this immeasurable grace.
The time hath come when, as a thank-offering for this bestowal, ye should
grow in faith and constancy as day followeth day, and should draw ever
nearer to the Lord, your God, becoming magnetized to such a degree, and so
aflame, that your holy melodies in praise of the Beloved will reach upward
to the Company on high; and that each one of you, even as a nightingale in
this rose garden of God, will glorify the Lord of Hosts, and become the
teacher of all who dwell on earth.