Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
Volume III
for myself. Therefore, mention me in my pure servitude; this is that by which my heart is dilated by every maid-servant who speaks the praise of God. I beseech God to make thee a dove in the grove of holiness, to coo with the most wonderful melodies the praise of thy Lord, the Merciful!
O thou who art ablaze with the fire of the Love of God!
As to thy vision that thou wert traveling to
Acca in a ship with the maid-servant of God .........: this ship is the ship of the
Covenant, which is surrounded by the winds of discord from the people of hypocrisy. Be rejoiced that ye two are preserved and have reached the shore of salvation.
Know thou, verily, the winds of confirmation shall surely surround the
Ark of Deliverance, the sails of the covenant shall be unfurled, and it shall reach the shore of the Kingdom of God. Blessed art thou, for thou hast entered this Ark and art saved from afflictions!
As to what thou hast seen in the dream, concerning the letter which reached thee from me, and angels were enclosed in it and they surrounded thee: Know thou verily, that letter is this glorious writing whereby I address thee; and, verily, this is full of angels of confirmation from the Kingdom off God and they will assist thee to serve the Cause of God in the vineyard of God.
O thou seeing one!
Know thou, verily, God hath preferred the insight to the sight, because the sight seeth the material things,
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