cob, that
strengthened Joseph in Egypt and gave to Moses courage and patience.

Through the Love of God, Christ was sent into the world with His inspiring
example of a perfect life of self-sacrifice and devotion, bringing to men
the message of Eternal Life. It was the Love of God that gave Muhammad
power to bring the Arabs from a state of animal degradation to a loftier
state of existence.

God's Love it was that sustained the Bab and brought him to his supreme
sacrifice, and made his bosom the willing target for a thousand bullets.

Finally, it was the Love of God that gave to the East Baha'u'llah, and is
now sending the light of His teaching far into the West, and from Pole to
Pole.

Thus I exhort each of you, realizing its power and beauty, to sacrifice
all your thoughts, words and actions to bring the knowledge of the Love of
God into every heart.

DISCOURSE AT 'L'ALLIANCE SPIRITUALISTE'

Salle de l'Athenee,
St Germain, Paris,
November 9th

I wish to express my gratitude for your hospitality, and my joy that you
are spiritually minded. I am happy to be present at a gathering such as
this, assembled together to listen to a Divine Message. If you could see
with the eye of truth, great waves of spirituality would be visible to you
in this place. The power of the Holy Spirit is here for all. Praise be to
God that your hearts are inspired with Divine fervour! Your souls are as
waves on the sea of the spirit; although each individual is a distinct
wave, the ocean is one, all are united in God.

Every heart should radiate unity, so that the Light of the one Divine
Source of all may shine forth bright and luminous. We must not consider
the separate waves alone, but the entire sea. We should rise from the
individual to the whole. The spirit is as one great ocean and the waves
thereof are the souls of men.

We are told in the Holy Scripture that the New Jerusalem shall appear on
earth. Now it is evident that this celestial city is not built of material
stones and mortar, but that it is a city not made with hands, eternal in
the Heavens.

This is a prophetic symbol, meaning the coming again of the Divine
Teaching to enlighten the hearts of men. It is long since this Holy
Guidance has governed the lives of humanity. But now, at last, the Holy
City of the New Jerusalem has come again to the world, it has appeared
anew under an Eastern sky; from the horizon of Persia has its effulgence
arisen to be a light t