hat the Blessed Tree
may cast its shade over east and west, and the Tabernacle of the
singleness of man be set up on the high summits, and flags that betoken
love and fellowship flutter from their staffs around the world until the
sea of truth lift high its waves, and earth bring forth the roses and
sweet herbs of blessings without end, and become from pole to pole the
Abha Paradise.

These are the counsels of 'Abdu'l-Baha. It is my hope that out of the
bestowals of the Lord of Hosts ye will become the spiritual essence and
the very radiance of humankind, binding the hearts of all with bonds of
love; that through the power of the Word of God ye will bring to life the
dead now buried in the graves of their sensual desires; that ye will, with
the rays of the Sun of Truth, restore the sight of those whose inner eye
is blind; that ye will bring spiritual healing to the spiritually sick.
These things do I hope for, out of the bounties and the bestowals of the
Beloved.

At all times do I speak of you and call you to mind. I pray unto the Lord,
and with tears I implore Him to rain down all these blessings upon you,
and gladden your hearts, and make blissful your souls, and grant you
exceeding joy and heavenly delights....

O Thou loving Provider! These souls have hearkened to the summons of the
Kingdom, and have gazed upon the glory of the Sun of Truth. They have
risen upward to the refreshing skies of love; they are enamoured of Thy
nature, and they worship Thy beauty. Unto Thee have they turned
themselves, speaking together of Thee, seeking out Thy dwelling, and
thirsting for the waterbrooks of Thy heavenly realm.

Thou art the Giver, the Bestower, the Ever-loving.

18: O THOU POSSESSOR OF A SEEING HEART! ALTHOUGH, ...

O thou possessor of a seeing heart! Although, materially speaking, thou
art deprived of physical sight, yet, praise be to God, spiritual insight
is thine. Thy heart seeth and thy spirit heareth. Bodily sight is subject
to a thousand maladies and assuredly will ultimately be lost. Thus no
importance should be attached to it. But the sight of the heart is
illumined. It discerneth and discovereth the divine Kingdom. It is
everlasting and eternal. Praise God, therefore, that the sight of thy
heart is illumined, and the hearing of thy mind responsive.

Each of the meetings ye have organized, wherein ye feel heavenly emotions
and comprehend realities and significances, is like unto the firmament,