Upon them be the Glory of God the Most Glorious.
He Is God
O ye believers of God and friends of ‘Abdu’l-Baha!
If ye knew how the heart of ‘Abdu’l-Baha is soaring at this
moment at your mentioning and the spirit is rejoicing at your name, undoubtedly
you would not contain yourselves in this physical temple, neither would you
have heeded any persecution or suffering.
Today the world of existence is moved through the Call of
the Covenant, and the disjoined members of this earth have found mutual
communication. Consider ye that the confusion produced thereby cannot be
cleared and the forces cannot be brought together save through the Power of the
Testament, and the darkness of the East and the West can only be dispelled
through the Sun of the Covenant. The Divine Covenant is like unto the spiritual
Springtime, which encircles all creation.
Now the greatest test for a tree is to have the latent
possibility of fruition, and with the appearance of the spring they put forth
leaves, branches and blossoms, but if a tree is barren at this season it will
remain deprived and fruitless. Likewise, those souls who have been firm in the
Covenant of God, are detached from all else save God, and are attracted to the
fragrances of God, their faces will shine like unto the luminous moon, with the
Light of Assurance. But the jealous bats, the people of injustice and pride,
flew away from the Light of the Covenant and shrank out of sight into the dark
dungeon of hesitation and fear. They have left the lamp of the Testament and
are running in the Sahara of discord and are seeking the gloom of worldliness. They
turned away from the Pure Spring of Life and attached themselves to the
stagnant pools of superstition. They left behind the Paradise of Abha and were
contented with this nether world.
