many beautiful
flowers of exquisite fragrance and love may blossom in abundance. Turn
your faces away from the contemplation of your own finite selves and fix
your eyes upon the Everlasting Radiance; then will your souls receive in
full measure the Divine Power of the Spirit and the Blessings of the
Infinite Bounty.

If you thus keep yourselves in readiness, you will become to the world of
humanity a burning flame, a star of guidance, and a fruitful tree,
changing all its darkness and woe into light and joy by the shining of the
Sun of Mercy and the infinite blessings of the Glad Tidings.

This is the meaning of the power of the Holy Spirit, which I pray may be
bountifully showered upon you.

4 Avenue de Camoeens, Paris, November 28th

4 Avenue de Camoeens, Paris,
November 28th

In these gatherings where we have met and spoken together you have all
become acquainted with the principles of this dispensation, and with the
reality of facts. Unto you it has been given to know these things, but
there are many still unenlightened and submerged in superstition. They
have heard but little of this great and glorious Cause, and the knowledge
they have is for the most part based only on hearsay. Alas, poor souls,
the knowledge they have is not based on truth, the foundation of their
belief is not the teaching of Baha'u'llah! There is, assuredly, a certain
amount of truth in what they have been told, but for the most part their
information has been inaccurate.

The true principles of the blessed Cause of God are the eleven rules which
I have given you, and I have carefully explained these, one by one.

You must endeavour always to live and act in direct obedience to the
teachings and laws of Baha'u'llah, so that every individual may see in all
the acts of your life that in word and in deed you are followers of the
Blessed Perfection.

Exert yourselves so that this glorious teaching may encircle the globe,
and that spirituality may be infused into the hearts of men.

The breath of the Holy Spirit shall confirm you, and although many will
arise against you, they shall not prevail!

When the Lord Christ was crowned with thorns, He knew that all the diadems
of the world were at His feet. All earthly crowns, however brilliant,
powerful and resplendent, bowed in adoration before the crown of thorns!
It was from this sure and certain knowledge He spoke, when He said: 'All
power is given unto Me, in Heaven and in earth