himself!

I hope that you will use your understanding to promote the unity and
tranquillity of mankind, to give enlightenment and civilization to the
people, to produce love in all around you, and to bring about the
universal peace.

Study the sciences, acquire more and more knowledge. Assuredly one may
learn to the end of one's life! Use your knowledge always for the benefit
of others; so may war cease on the face of this beautiful earth, and a
glorious edifice of peace and concord be raised. Strive that your high
ideals may be realized in the Kingdom of God on earth, as they will be in
Heaven.

THE CLOUDS THAT OBSCURE THE SUN OF TRUTH

4 Avenue de Camoeens,
Morning of Friday, October 27th

The day is fine, the air is pure, the sun shines, no mist nor cloud
obscures its radiance.

These brilliant rays penetrate into all parts of the city; so may the Sun
of Truth illumine the minds of men.

Christ said, 'They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of
Heaven'.(2) Baha'u'llah said, 'When Christ came for the first time He came
upon the clouds'.(3) Christ said that He had come from the sky, from
Heaven--that He came forth from God--while He was born of Mary, His Mother.
But when He declared that He had come from Heaven, it is clear that He did
not mean the blue firmament but that He spoke of the Heaven of the Kingdom
of God, and that from this Heaven He descended upon the clouds. As clouds
are obstacles to the shining of the sun, so the clouds of the world of
humanity hid from the eyes of men the radiance of the Divinity of Christ.

Men said, 'He is of Nazareth, born of Mary, we know Him and we know his
brethren. What can He mean? What is He saying? That He came forth from
God?'

The Body of Christ was born of Mary of Nazareth, but the Spirit was of
God. The capacities of His human body were limited but the strength of His
spirit was vast, infinite, immeasurable.

Men asked, 'Why does He say He is of God?' If they had understood the
reality of Christ, they would have known that the body of His humanity was
a cloud that hid His Divinity. The world only saw His human form, and
therefore wondered how He could have 'come down from Heaven'.

Baha'u'llah said, 'Even as the clouds hide the sun and the sky from our
gaze, even so did the humanity of Christ hide from men His real Divine
character'.

I hope that you will turn with unclouded eyes towards the Sun of Truth,
beholding not the things of earth