infinite bounty and ideal gardeners for these
forests. Thus the world of humanity will be wholly transformed and the
merciful bounties become manifest.

225: O YE CONCOURSE OF THE KINGDOM OF ABHA! TWO ...

O ye concourse of the Kingdom of Abha! Two calls to success and prosperity
are being raised from the heights of the happiness of mankind, awakening
the slumbering, granting sight to the blind, causing the heedless to
become mindful, bestowing hearing upon the deaf, unloosing the tongue of
the mute and resuscitating the dead.

The one is the call of civilization, of the progress of the material
world. This pertaineth to the world of phenomena, promoteth the principles
of material achievement, and is the trainer for the physical
accomplishments of mankind. It compriseth the laws, regulations, arts and
sciences through which the world of humanity hath developed; laws and
regulations which are the outcome of lofty ideals and the result of sound
minds, and which have stepped forth into the arena of existence through
the efforts of the wise and cultured in past and subsequent ages. The
propagator and executive power of this call is just government.

The other is the soul-stirring call of God, Whose spiritual teachings are
safeguards of the everlasting glory, the eternal happiness and
illumination of the world of humanity, and cause attributes of mercy to be
revealed in the human world and the life beyond.

This second call is founded upon the instructions and exhortations of the
Lord and the admonitions and altruistic emotions belonging to the realm of
morality which, like unto a brilliant light, brighten and illumine the
lamp of the realities of mankind. Its penetrative power is the Word of
God.

However, until material achievements, physical accomplishments and human
virtues are reinforced by spiritual perfections, luminous qualities and
characteristics of mercy, no fruit or result shall issue therefrom, nor
will the happiness of the world of humanity, which is the ultimate aim, be
attained. For although, on the one hand, material achievements and the
development of the physical world produce prosperity, which exquisitely
manifests its intended aims, on the other hand dangers, severe calamities
and violent afflictions are imminent.

Consequently, when thou lookest at the orderly pattern of kingdoms, cities
and villages, with the attractiveness of their adornments, the freshness
of their natural resources,