s time and the very spirit
of this age.

Unless these Teachings are effectively spread among the people, until the
old ways, the old concepts, are gone and forgotten, this world of being
will find no peace, nor will it reflect the perfections of the Heavenly
Kingdom. Strive ye with all your hearts to make the heedless conscious, to
waken those who sleep, to bring knowledge to the ignorant, to make the
blind to see, the deaf to hear, and restore the dead to life.

It behoveth you to show forth such power, such endurance, as to astonish
all beholders. The confirmations of the Kingdom are with you. Upon you be
the glory of the All-Glorious.

206: PRAISE BE TO HIM WHO HATH RENT THE DARK ASUNDER, ...

Praise be to Him Who hath rent the dark asunder, hath blotted out the
night, hath drawn aside the coverings and torn away the veils; Whose light
thereupon shone out, Whose signs and tokens were spread abroad, and His
mysteries laid bare. Then did His clouds part and loaded down the earth
with His bounties and bestowals, and made all things sweet with rain, and
caused the fresh greenery of knowledge and the hyacinths of certitude to
spring forth and to shake and tremble for joy, till the whole world was
scented with the fragrance of His holiness.

Salutations and praise, blessings and glory be upon those divine
realities, those sacred windflowers that have come forth out of this
supreme bestowal, this flooding grace that hath roared like a clashing sea
of gifts and bounties, tossing its waves to the high heavens.

O God, my God! Praise be unto Thee for kindling the fire of divine love in
the Holy Tree on the summit of the loftiest mount: that Tree which is
'neither of the east nor of the west,'(65) that fire which blazed out till
the flame of it soared upward to the Concourse on high, and from it those
realities caught the light of guidance, and cried out: 'Verily have we
perceived a fire on the slope of Mount Sinai.'(66)

O God, my God! Increase Thou this fire, as day followeth day, till the
blast of it setteth in motion all the earth. O Thou, my Lord! Kindle the
light of Thy love in every heart, breathe into men's souls the spirit of
Thy knowledge, gladden their breasts with the verses of Thy oneness. Call
Thou to life those who dwell in their tombs, warn Thou the prideful, make
happiness world-wide, send down Thy crystal waters, and in the assemblage
of manifest splendours, pass round that cup which is 'temper