together in perfect harmony, in the best of
fellowship, in full agreement, closely knit, united in their efforts.

The more this compact is reinforced, the happier and the better shall all
things be, for it will draw unto itself the confirmations of God. If the
lovers of the Lord are hoping for grace to win as their friends the
Company on high, they must do all they can to strengthen this compact, for
such an alliance for brotherhood and unity is even as watering the Tree of
Life: it is life everlasting.

O ye lovers of God! Make firm your steps; fulfil your pledge to one
another; go forth in harmony to scatter abroad the sweet savours of God's
love, and to establish His Teachings, until ye breathe a soul into the
dead body of this world, and bring true healing in the physical and
spiritual realms to everyone who aileth.

O ye lovers of God! The world is even as a human being who is diseased and
impotent, whose eyes can see no longer, whose ears have gone deaf, all of
whose powers are corroded and used up. Wherefore must the friends of God
be competent physicians who, following the holy Teachings, will nurse this
patient back to health. Perhaps, God willing, the world will mend, and
become permanently whole, and its exhausted faculties will be restored,
and its person will take on such vigour, freshness and verdancy that it
will shine out with comeliness and grace.

The first remedy of all is to guide the people aright, so that they will
turn themselves unto God, and listen to His counsellings, and go forth
with hearing ears and seeing eyes. Once this speedily effective draught is
given them, then, in accordance with the Teachings, they must be led to
acquire the characteristics and the behaviour of the Concourse on high,
and encouraged to seek out all the bounties of the Abha Realm. They must
cleanse their hearts from even the slightest trace of hatred and spite,
and they must set about being truthful and honest, conciliatory and loving
to all humankind--so that East and West will, even as two lovers, hold each
other close; that hatred and hostility will perish from the earth, and
universal peace be firmly rooted in their place.

O ye lovers of God! Be kind to all peoples; care for every person; do all
ye can to purify the hearts and minds of men; strive ye to gladden every
soul. To every meadow be a shower of grace, to every tree the water of
life; be as sweet musk to the sense of humankind, and to the ailing be a