no commendation hath he nor will ever have except Abdul-Baha. This is my
longing. This is my supreme apex. This is my greatest yearning. This is my
eternal life. This is my everlasting glory! Express ye the same thing
which is issued from my pen. This is the duty of all. Consequently the
friends of God must assist and help Abdul-Baha in the adoration of the
True One; in the servitude to the human race; in the well-being of the
human world and in divine love and kindness.

O ye friends of God! Through the Appearance of the Blessed Perfection the
theories are abrogated and the facts are established. The time of
superficiality is gone by and the cycle of reality hath appeared. One must
become the incarnation of Servitude, the personification of Love, the
embodiment of Spirituality and the mirror of Mercy.

The believers must become the cause of life; deliver the people from
heedlessness, call the souls to the perfection of humanity, beckon nations
to unity and agreement, destroy the foundations of foreignness, make
everyone as friends and associates, treat the negligent souls as their own
children, and train and educate them with the utmost love--so that the
ignorant become wise, the blind become endowed with sight, and the deaf be
given hearing.

O ye friends of God! Beware! Beware of differences! By differences the
Temple of God is razed to its very foundation, and by the blowing of the
winds of disagreement the Blessed Tree is prevented from producing any
fruit. By the intense cold of the diversity of opinions the rose-garden of
Unity is withered, and the fire of the love of God is extinguished!

O ye friends of God! Abdul-Baha is the Manifestation of Thraldom and not
"Christ." The servant of the human realm is he, and not a "chief."
Nonexistent is he and not "Existent." Pure nothingness is he and not
"Eternal(197) ."

There is no outcome or result to these discussions. We must put aside
these disputes and controversies, nay, rather must we consign them to
utter oblivion and arise to do that which is indispensable and which is
demanded of us in this Day. Controversies are words and not significances,
theories and not realities.

The quintessence of Truth is this: We must all become united and
harmonized in order to illumine this gloomy world, to abolish the
foundations of hostility and animosity from among mankind, to perfume the
inhabitants of the universe with the holy fragrances of the nature and
disposition o