He Is God!
O ye dear friends and maid-servants of God!
Your epistle was received [2]. You have expressed joy and happiness because of the trip of Abdu’l-Baha from the center of prison (Acca) to the land of the divine Joseph (Egypt). There are divine wisdoms in this journey! I am hopeful that it will be productive of results.
Now -- praise be to God -- some time is passed with the utmost of spirit and
fragrance in this country, and we are occupied with the service of the Cause of
God and servitude to the Holy Threshold.
When the service, which is our (present) purpose, is realized for the Kingdom
of God, perhaps we shall journey to other parts.
If the beloved of God in all America strive for unity and harmony, attain
perfect love and accord, and act according to the divine teachings and the
precepts of the Blessed Perfection, this will prove a magnet attracting Abdu’l-Baha,
so that, perchance, he may journey to America.
Therefore, strive ye that ye may become the embodied teachings
of the Blessed Perfection, confirmed in the divine precepts, resurrected in
holiness and purity, severance, humility and meekness, set aglow with the fire
of divine love; and loosen your tongues with the praises and commendations of
the Heavenly Kingdom.
Thus may the great attainment be realized.
Upon ye be Baha’u’l-Abha!
(Signed) Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
[1] Through Lua M. Getsinger.
[2] A letter sent by the Washington (D.C.) Assembly on
behalf of the Assemblies of America, supplicating Abdu’l-Baha to visit this
country.
(Star of the West, vol. 1, no. 16, December 31, 1910)
Note -- It is the wish of Abdul-Baha that this Tablet be
read in all Assemblies.
