. Make them to be a comfort and a solace to humankind and servants to
the peace of the world. Exhilarate them with the wine of Thy counsel, and
grant that all of them may tread the path of Thy commandments.

O Thou Provider! The dearest wish of this servant of Thy Threshold is to
behold the friends of east and west in close embrace; to see all the
members of human society gathered with love in a single great assemblage,
even as individual drops of water collected in one mighty sea; to behold
them all as birds in one garden of roses, as pearls of one ocean, as
leaves of one tree, as rays of one sun.

Thou art the Mighty, the Powerful, and Thou art the God of strength, the
Omnipotent, the All-Seeing.

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O ye two favoured handmaids of the Lord! The letter from Mother Beecher
hath been received, and truly it spoke for you both, wherefore I address
the two of you together. This seemeth very good to me, for ye two pure
beings are even as a single precious gem, ye are two boughs branched from
a single tree; ye both adore the same Beloved, ye both are longing for the
same resplendent Sun.

My hope is that all the handmaids of God in that region will unite like
unto the waves of one unending sea; for although blown about as the wind
listeth, these are separate in themselves, yet in truth are they all at
one with the boundless deep.

How good it is if the friends be as close as sheaves of light, if they
stand together side by side in a firm unbroken line. For now have the rays
of reality from the Sun of the world of existence, united in adoration all
the worshippers of this light; and these rays have, through infinite
grace, gathered all peoples together within this wide-spreading shelter;
therefore must all souls become as one soul, and all hearts as one heart.
Let all be set free from the multiple identities that were born of passion
and desire, and in the oneness of their love for God find a new way of
life.

O ye two handmaids of God! Now is the time for you to become as bounteous
cups that are filled to overflowing, and even as the reviving gusts that
blow from the Abha Paradise, to scatter the fragrance of musk across that
land. Release yourselves from this world's life, and at every stage long
ye for non-existence; for when the ray returneth to the sun, it is wiped
out, and when the drop cometh to the sea, it vanisheth, and when the true
lover findeth his