t, with righteous motives, with counsels helpful
and effective, with godly attributes, with deeds pleasing to the Almighty,
with the qualities of heaven. It signifieth education for all mankind,
guidance for all men, the spreading far and wide of the sweet savours of
the spirit, the promulgation of God's proofs, the setting forth of
arguments conclusive and divine, the doing of charitable deeds.

Whensoever holy souls, drawing on the powers of heaven, shall arise with
such qualities of the spirit, and march in unison, rank on rank, every one
of those souls will be even as one thousand, and the surging waves of that
mighty ocean will be even as the battalions of the Concourse on high. What
a blessing that will be--when all shall come together, even as once
separate torrents, rivers and streams, running brooks and single drops,
when collected together in one place will form a mighty sea. And to such a
degree will the inherent unity of all prevail, that the traditions, rules,
customs and distinctions in the fanciful life of these populations will be
effaced and vanish away like isolated drops, once the great sea of oneness
doth leap and surge and roll.

I swear by the Ancient Beauty, that at such a time overwhelming grace will
so encircle all, and the sea of grandeur will so overflow its shores, that
the narrowest strip of water will grow wide as an endless sea, and every
merest drop will be even as the shoreless deep.

O ye loved ones of God! Struggle and strive to reach that high station,
and to make a splendour so to shine across these realms of earth that the
rays of it will be reflected back from a dawning-point on the horizon of
eternity. This is the very foundation of the Cause of God. This is the
very pith of the Law of God. This is the mighty structure raised up by the
Manifestations of God. This is why the orb of God's world dawneth. This is
why the Lord establisheth Himself on the throne of His human body.

O ye loved ones of God! See how the Exalted One(70)--may the souls of all
on earth be a ransom for Him--for this high purpose made His blessed heart
the target for affliction's spears; and because the real intent of the
Ancient Beauty--for Him may the souls of the Concourse on high be offered
up--was to win this same supernal goal, the Exalted One bared His holy
breast for a target to a myriad bullets fired by the people of malice and
hate, and with utter meekness died the martyr's death. On the dust of this