ark universe and
quicken to life this dead world. The joy of 'Abdu'l-Baha depends upon
this! I hope that you may become confirmed therein.

14 Consequently, those souls who are in a condition of the utmost
severance, purified from the defects of the world of nature, sanctified
from attachment to this earth, vivified with the breaths of eternal
life--with luminous hearts, with heavenly spirit, with attraction of
consciousness, with celestial magnanimity, with eloquent tongues and with
clear explanations--such souls must hasten and travel through all parts of
the Central States. In every city and village they must occupy themselves
with the diffusion of the divine exhortations and advices, guide the souls
and promote the oneness of the world of humanity. They must play the
melody of international conciliation with such power that every deaf one
may attain hearing, every extinct person may be set aglow, every dead one
may obtain new life and every indifferent soul may find ecstasy. It is
certain that such will be the consummation.

Let the spreaders of the fragrances of God recite this prayer every
morning:

O LORD, my God! Praise and thanksgiving be unto Thee for Thou hast guided
me to the highway of the kingdom, suffered me to walk in this straight and
far-stretching path, illumined my eye by beholding the splendors of Thy
light, inclined my ear to the melodies of the birds of holiness from the
kingdom of mysteries and attracted my heart with Thy love among the
righteous.

O Lord! Confirm me with the Holy Spirit, so that I may call in Thy Name
amongst the nations, and give the glad tidings of the manifestation of Thy
kingdom amongst mankind.

O Lord! I am weak, strengthen me with Thy power and potency. My tongue
falters, suffer me to utter Thy commemoration and praise. I am lowly,
honor me through admitting me into Thy kingdom. I am remote, cause me to
approach the threshold of Thy mercifulness. O Lord! Make me a brilliant
lamp, a shining star and a blessed tree, adorned with fruit, its branches
overshadowing all these regions. Verily, Thou art the Mighty, the Powerful
and Unconstrained.

12: TABLET TO THE BAHA'IS OF THE WESTERN STATES

_Revealed on February 15, 1917, in Baha'u'llah's room at the house of
Abbud in Akka, and addressed to the Baha'is of the eleven Western States
of the United States: New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, California,
Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. _