ubt thereof whatever.

Such is the case with the holy Manifestations of God. Such in particular
is the case with the divine reality of the Most Great Name, the Abha
Beauty. When once He standeth revealed unto the assembled peoples of the
world and appeareth with such comeliness, such enchantments--alluring as a
Joseph in the Egypt of the spirit--He enslaveth all the lovers on earth.

As to those souls who are born into this life as ethereal and radiant
entities and yet, on account of their handicaps and trials, are deprived
of great and real advantages, and leave the world without having lived to
the full--certainly this is a cause for grieving. This is the reason why
the universal Manifestations of God unveil Their countenances to man, and
endure every calamity and sore affliction, and lay down Their lives as a
ransom; it is to make these very people, the ready ones, the ones who have
capacity, to become dawning points of light, and to bestow upon them the
life that fadeth never. This is the true sacrifice: the offering of
oneself, even as did Christ, as a ransom for the life of the world.

As to the influence of holy Beings and the continuance of Their grace to
mankind after They have put away Their human form, this is, to Baha'is, an
indisputable fact. Indeed, the flooding grace, the streaming splendours of
the holy Manifestations appear after Their ascension from this world. The
exaltation of the Word, the revelation of the power of God, the conversion
of God-fearing souls, the bestowal of everlasting life--it was following
the Messiah's martyrdom that all these were increased and intensified. In
the same way, ever since the ascension of the Blessed Beauty, the
bestowals have been more abundant, the spreading light is brighter, the
tokens of the Lord's might are more powerful, the influence of the Word is
much stronger, and it will not be long before the motion, the heat, the
brilliance, the blessings of the Sun of His reality will encompass all the
earth.

Grieve thou not over the slow advance of the Baha'i Cause in that land.
This is but the early dawn. Consider how, with the Cause of Christ, three
hundred years had to go by, before its great influence was made manifest.
Today, not sixty years from its birth, the light of this Faith hath been
shed around the planet.

Regarding the health society of which thou art a member, once it cometh
under the shelter of this Faith its influence shall increase a
hundredfol