upon
them be the Glory of God the Most Glorious!
He Is God!
O ye servants of the Blessed Perfection!
In the Day of the Manifestation, you have caught the lights from the Manifestor
on the Mount of Sinai and beheld the splendor of the Ray of Truth. Ye are the
children of the Period of Baha’u’llah and have become the appearance of the
Effulgence of Mercifulness in the Day wherein the rays of the Divine Sun
radiate upon all things. Tear down the old garment and clad your sanctified
temples with the new robe! Ye have passed from the salty water of ignorance and
have drunk the salubrious salsabil of knowledge. Ye have closed your eyes to
the wine of heedlessness and became intoxicated with the choice sealed wine of
intelligence! Ye have taken the cup of prosperity from the cupbearer of the
Covenant and with infinite rejoicing, happiness and beatitude celebrated the
Feast of beholding the rays of the Orb of regions!
Now is the time that we may sacrifice for the sake of the love of that Beloved,
our spirit, our soul, our heart our mind, our property, our life and our all;
and to wish for nothing but His good-pleasure, search for nothing but His Path,
and desire nothing but His Service!
Upon ye be Glory!
(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
(Star of the West, vol. 1, no. 15, December 12, 1910)
