o lighten the whole world. We see in these days the
fulfilment of the Divine Prophecy. Jerusalem had disappeared. The heavenly
city was destroyed, now it is rebuilt; it was razed to the ground, but now
its walls and pinnacles have been restored, and are towering aloft in
their renewed and glorious beauty.

In the Western world material prosperity has triumphed, whilst in the East
the spiritual sun has shone forth.

I am very glad to see such an assembly as this in Paris, where spiritual
and material progress are met together in unity.

Man--the true man--is soul, not body; though physically man belongs to the
animal kingdom, yet his soul lifts him above the rest of creation. Behold
how the light of the sun illuminates the world of matter: even so doth the
Divine Light shed its rays in the kingdom of the soul. The soul it is
which makes the human creature a celestial entity!

By the power of the Holy Spirit, working through his soul, man is able to
perceive the Divine reality of things. All great works of art and science
are witnesses to this power of the Spirit.

The same Spirit gives Eternal Life.

Those alone who are baptized by the Divine Spirit will be enabled to bring
all peoples into the bond of unity. It is by the power of the Spirit that
the Eastern World of spiritual thought can intermingle with the Western
realm of action, so that the world of matter may become Divine.

It follows that all who work for the Supreme Design are soldiers in the
army of the Spirit.

The light of the celestial world makes war against the world of shadow and
illusion. The rays of the Sun of Truth dispel the darkness of superstition
and misunderstanding.

You are of the Spirit! To you who seek the truth, the Revelation of
Baha'u'llah will come as a great joy! This teaching is of the Spirit, in
it is no precept which is not of the Divine Spirit.

Spirit cannot be perceived by the material senses of the physical body,
excepting as it is expressed in outward signs and works. The human body is
visible, the soul is invisible. It is the soul nevertheless that directs a
man's faculties, that governs his humanity.

The soul has two main faculties. (a) As outer circumstances are
communicated to the soul by the eyes, ears, and brain of a man, so does
the soul communicate its desires and purposes through the brain to the
hands and tongue of the physical body, thereby expressing itself. The
spirit in the soul is the very essence of li