thoughts, all their words, on teaching the Cause of God and
spreading the Faith of God, and inspiring all to characterize themselves
with the characteristics of God; on loving mankind; on being pure and holy
in all things, and spotless in their public and private life; on being
upright and detached, and fervent, and afire. All is to be yielded up,
save only the remembrance of God; all is to be dispraised, except His
praise. Today, to this melody of the Company on high, the world will leap
and dance: 'Glory be to my Lord, the All-Glorious!' But know ye this: save
for this song of God, no song will stir the world, and save for this
nightingale-cry of truth from the Garden of God, no melody will lure away
the heart. 'Whence cometh this Singer Who speaketh the Beloved's name?'

55: IT BEFITTETH THE FRIENDS TO HOLD A GATHERING, A ...

It befitteth the friends to hold a gathering, a meeting, where they shall
glorify God and fix their hearts upon Him, and read and recite the Holy
Writings of the Blessed Beauty--may my soul be the ransom of His lovers!
The lights of the All-Glorious Realm, the rays of the Supreme Horizon,
will be cast upon such bright assemblages, for these are none other than
the Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kars, the Dawning-Points of God's Remembrance, which
must, at the direction of the Most Exalted Pen, be established in every
hamlet and city... These spiritual gatherings must be held with the utmost
purity and consecration, so that from the site itself, and its earth and
the air about it, one will inhale the fragrant breathings of the Holy
Spirit.

56: WHENSOEVER A COMPANY OF PEOPLE SHALL GATHER IN A ...

Whensoever a company of people shall gather in a meeting place, shall
engage in glorifying God, and shall speak with one another of the
mysteries of God, beyond any doubt the breathings of the Holy Spirit will
blow gently over them, and each shall receive a share thereof.

57: WE HEAR THAT THOU HAST IN MIND TO EMBELLISH THY ...

We hear that thou hast in mind to embellish thy house from time to time
with a meeting of Baha'is, where some among them will engage in glorifying
the All-Glorious Lord... Know that shouldst thou bring this about, that
house of earth will become a house of heaven, and that fabric of stone a
congress of the spirit.

58: THOU HAST ASKED ABOUT PLACES OF WORSHIP AND THE ...

Thou hast asked about places of worship and the underlying reason
therefor