Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
Volume III
O ye1 dear servants of God!
Your letter received and the contents proved excellent. That which is the desire of you hearts is the utmost hope of the daughters of the Kingdom; that is, they wish to sacrifice themselves for the Beauty of Abha2 and offer their lives for His Holiness, the Supreme.3
In reality, the radiant, pure hearts are the Mashrak-el-Azcar and from them the voice of supplication and invocation continually reacheth the Supreme Concourse.
I ask God to make the heart of every one of you a temple of the Divine Temples and to let the lamp of the great guidance be lighted therein; and when the hearts find such an attainment, they will certainly exert the utmost endeavor and energy in the building of the Mashrak-el-Azcar; thus may the outward express the inward, and the form (or letter) indicate the meaning (or reality).
O servant of God!
Give thanks to God, for thou hast come to the Holy Land, visited the Sacred Threshold, associated with us for a few days and heard the divine admonitions, which are in the heavenly Books. Now return, behave and act with perfect firmness, according to the heavenly teachings, in those regions, in order that you may become the cause by which human perfections will be attained.
O thou who art attracted by the Fragrances of God!
Give thanks unto God for having revealed unto thee, in visions, the mysteries of His Kingdom and for having
1 To three maid-servants at Chicago.
2 Baha’o’llah.
3 The Bab.
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