O ye who are firm in the Covenant and the Testament! Your letter was
received and your blessed names were one by one perused. The contents of
the letter were divine inspirations and manifest bounties because they
were indicative of the union of the friends and the harmony of all hearts.
Today the most remarkable favour of God centereth around union and harmony
among the friends; so that this unity and concord may be the cause of the
promulgation of the oneness of the world of humanity, may emancipate the
world from this intense darkness of enmity and rancour, and that the Sun
of Truth may shine in full and perfect effulgence.
Today, all the peoples of the world are indulging in self-interest and
exert the utmost effort and endeavour to promote their own material
interests. They are worshipping themselves and not the divine reality, nor
the world of mankind. They seek diligently their own benefit and not the
common weal. This is because they are captives of the world of nature and
unaware of the divine teachings, of the bounty of the Kingdom and of the
Sun of Truth. But ye, praise be to God, are at present especially favoured
with this bounty, have become of the chosen, have been informed of the
heavenly instructions, have gained admittance into the Kingdom of God,
have become the recipients of unbounded blessings and have been baptized
with the Water of Life, with the fire of the love of God and with the Holy
Spirit.
Strive, therefore, with heart and soul that ye become ignited candles in
the assemblage of the world, glittering stars on the horizon of Truth and
may become the cause of the propagation of the light of the Kingdom; in
order that the world of humanity may be converted into a divine realm, the
nether world may become the world on high, the love of God and the mercy
of the Lord may raise their canopy upon the apex of the world, human souls
may become the waves of the ocean of truth, the world of humanity may grow
into one blessed tree, the verses of oneness may be chanted and the
melodies of sanctity may reach the Supreme Concourse.
Day and night I entreat and supplicate to the Kingdom of God and beg for
you infinite assistance and confirmation. Do not take into consideration
your own aptitudes and capacities, but fix your gaze on the consummate
bounty, the divine bestowal and the power of the Holy Spirit--the power
that converteth the drop into a sea and the star into a sun.
Praise be to God, the hosts of the Supreme Concourse secure the victory
and the power of the Kingdom is ready to assist and to support. Should ye
at every instant unloosen the tongue in thanksgiving and gratitude, ye
would not be able to discharge yourselves of the obligation of gratitude
for these bestowals.
Consider: eminent personages whose fame hath spread all over the world
shall, erelong, fade into utter nothingness as the result of their
deprivation of this heavenly bounty; no name and no fame shall they leave
behind, and of them no fruit and trace shall survive. But as the
effulgences of the Sun of Truth have dawned forth upon you and ye have
attained everlasting life, ye shall shine and sparkle forevermore from the
horizon of existence.
Peter was a fisherman and Mary Magdalene a peasant, but as they were
specially favoured with the blessings of Christ, the horizon of their
faith became illumined, and down to the present day they are shining from
the horizon of everlasting glory. In this station, merit and capacity are
not to be considered; nay rather, the resplendent rays of the Sun of
Truth, which have illumined these mirrors, must be taken into account.
Ye are inviting me to America. I am likewise longing to gaze upon those
illumined faces and converse and associate with those true friends. But
the magnetic power which shall draw me to those shores is the union and
harmony of the friends, their behaviour and conduct in accordance with the
teachings of God and the firmness of all in the Covenant and the
Testament.
O Divine Providence! This assemblage is composed of Thy friends who are
attracted to Thy beauty and are set ablaze by the fire of Thy love. Turn
these souls into heavenly angels, resuscitate them through the breath of
Thy Holy Spirit, grant them eloquent tongues and resolute hearts, bestow
upon them heavenly power and merciful susceptibilities, cause them to
become the promulgators of the oneness of mankind and the cause of love
and concord in the world of humanity, so that the perilous darkness of
ignorant prejudice may vanish through the light of the Sun of Truth, this
dreary world may become illumined, this material realm may absorb the rays
of the world of spirit, these different colours may merge into one colour
and the melody of praise may rise to the kingdom of Thy sanctity.
Verily, Thou art the Omnipotent and the Almighty!