en (not
understanding its spiritual purport) wondered and derided. Praise be to
God! that now its signs have become manifest, its power evident, and its
proof plain. Thanks be unto Him! that the East and West are stirred into
cheerfulness, and through the Holy Fragrances all directions are perfumed.

The Blessed Perfection, in a clear text, hath promised us in the Book:
"Verily I behold you from the Horizon of Abha and will make victorious
whomsoever will arise in the service of my cause with the hosts of the
Supreme Concourse and the cohorts of the favored angels!" Praise be to
God! that this victory and confirmation became visible and manifest and
hath shone forth from the horizon of the world like unto the sun.

Therefore, O ye friends of God! Show ye forth an earnest endeavor and
display ye a resolute effort, so that ye may become assisted in the
adoration of the Ancient Beauty and the Manifest Light; to be the cause of
spreading the light of the Sun of Truth; to infuse into the dead,
antiquated body of the world a new spirit; to cast in the fields of the
hearts pure seeds; to arise in the service of the Cause; to speak with
eloquent tongues; to become candles of guidance in the assemblage of the
world; to become shining stars in the horizon of the existent being; to
become merciful birds in the rose-garden of oneness; to sing the melodies
of realities and significances; to spend every breath of your lives in the
most great Cause; and to devote the period of your existence to the
service of this conspicuous Light; so that in the end ye may be freed from
loss and failure and attain to the inexhaustible treasury of the Kingdom.
For the life on man is wholly subject to danger and impermanency. A person
cannot put his assurance even in one moment's continuity. Notwithstanding
this, the nations of the world, deceived by the mirage of superstition,
imagine themselves secure in the heavenly way. Alas! Alas! Former
communities in bygone ages entertained the same perishing thoughts; but by
one of those periodical fluctuations they were all hidden under the ground
and afflicted with deprivation and loss, except those souls who had become
pure evanescence and had arisen with great self-abnegation in the path of
God. Such souls shine forth as brilliant stars from the Horizon of the
Ancient Glory, and the results which emanated from their lives in
succeeding ages and cycles are the proofs of this statement. Therefore, do
ye not