DETACHMENT FROM THE PHYSICAL WORLD

"Now is the time," He no less significantly remarks in another of these

Tablets, "for you to divest yourselves of the garment of attachment to

this world that perisheth, to be wholly severed from the physical world,

become heavenly angels, and travel to these countries. I swear by Him

besides Whom there is none other God that each one of you will become an

Israfil of Life, and will blow the Breath of Life into the souls of

others." And lastly this glorious promise in another of those immortal

Tablets: "Should success crown your enterprise, America will assuredly

evolve into a center from which waves of spiritual power will emanate, and

the throne of the Kingdom of God, will, in the plenitude of its majesty

and glory, be firmly established."

In one of the earliest Tablets addressed by Him to the American believers

these equally significant words have been penned: "If ye be truly united,

if ye agree to promote that which is the essential purpose, and to show

forth an all-unifying love, I swear by Him Who causeth the seed to split

and the breeze to waft, so great a light will shine forth from your faces

as to reach the highest heavens, the fame of your glory will be noised

abroad, the evidences of your preeminence will spread throughout all

regions, your power will penetrate the realities of all things, your aims

and purposes will exert their influence upon the great and mighty nations,

your spirits will encompass the whole world of being, and ye will discover

yourselves to be kings in the dominions of the Kingdom, and attired with

the glorious crowns of the invisible Realm, and become the marshals of the

army of peace, and princes of the forces of light, and stars shining from

the horizon of perfection, and brilliant lamps shedding their radiance

upon men."

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