e transmission of the grace of the Divinity Itself, the
Sovereign Lord of all. Through the Teachings of this Day Star of Truth
every man will advance and develop until he attaineth the station at which
he can manifest all the potential forces with which his inmost true self
hath been endowed. It is for this very purpose that in every age and
dispensation the Prophets of God and His chosen Ones have appeared amongst
men, and have evinced such power as is born of God and such might as only
the Eternal can reveal.

Can one of sane mind ever seriously imagine that, in view of certain words
the meaning of which he cannot comprehend, the portal of God's infinite
guidance can ever be closed in the face of men? Can he ever conceive for
these Divine Luminaries, these resplendent Lights either a beginning or an
end? What outpouring flood can compare with the stream of His
all-embracing grace, and what blessing can excel the evidences of so great
and pervasive a mercy? There can be no doubt whatever that if for one
moment the tide of His mercy and grace were to be withheld from the world,
it would completely perish. For this reason, from the beginning that hath
no beginning the portals of Divine mercy have been flung open to the face
of all created things, and the clouds of Truth will continue to the end
that hath no end to rain on the soil of human capacity, reality and
personality their favors and bounties. Such hath been God's method
continued from everlasting to everlasting.

XXVIII: HAPPY IS THE MAN WHO WILL ARISE TO SERVE...

Happy is the man who will arise to serve My Cause, and glorify My
beauteous Name. Take hold of My Book with the power of My might, and
cleave tenaciously to whatsoever commandment thy Lord, the Ordainer, the
All-Wise, hath prescribed therein. Behold, O Muhammad, how the sayings and
doings of the followers of _Sh_i'ih Islam have dulled the joy and fervor
of its early days, and tarnished the pristine brilliancy of its light. In
its primitive days, whilst they still adhered to the precepts associated
with the name of their Prophet, the Lord of mankind, their career was
marked by an unbroken chain of victories and triumphs. As they gradually
strayed from the path of their Ideal Leader and Master, as they turned
away from the Light of God and corrupted the principle of His Divine
unity, and as they increasingly centered their attention upon them who
were only the revealers of the potency of His Wo