n illumination from the Centre of Mysteries, and beg
for bounties in abundance from Him Who is the Celestial Beauty
Unconstrained. The ear of their intellect is hearkening to the divine call
from the Company on High, and they drink the draught of faithfulness from
bounty's cup. To them, all that is not the Beloved is nothing at all, and
from whatever is not the good-pleasure of God, they veil their eyes. They
worship truth, they seek reality, and they are intoxicated with the wine
of His love.

God be praised, you have attained these bestowals. Now is the time for
zeal and ardour, the season of fervour and joy. Thoughts must be focused
on one Centre, opinions united on a single point, to publish abroad the
Teachings of God and to act in accord with the counsels of 'Abdu'l-Baha,
so that the light of divine confirmations may wax ever brighter, and the
bounties of divine favour and success appear on every side, and that in a
brief period, great progress will be made, and secrets now hidden will be
divulged, and joy and radiance will appear.

It is to be hoped that out of the concealed and manifest favour of the
Abha Beauty, He will generate a new spirit in His loyal loved ones, and
make them to radiate a new and wondrous joy. This indeed does not seem far
from the outpourings of His bounties and bestowals.

46: In this noblest of all ages the Sun of grace ...

(169) In this noblest of all ages the Sun of grace and loving-kindness has
shone out from the divine day-spring with such resplendent glory and is
casting His beams so bright and far, that He has lit up all the earth and
made the hearts and minds of men to be as sanctified mirrors and
reflectors of holiness--this to such a degree that from turning their faces
unto that bright Orb, that Star of the loftiest heaven, those illumined
beings have received abundant grace and have been enabled to understand
the secret of God's oneness, and the mystery of His unity, and to become
alert to subtle realities.

Praised be God the Beloved that He has disclosed, through His invisible
bounties and visible grace, such secrets, and drawn such veils aside.
Words have taken on new meaning, and meaning itself has been adorned with
the divine. A clear Covenant makes our duty plain; an explicit and lucid
Text explains the revealed Book; a specifically named Centre has been
designated, toward whom all must turn, and the pronouncement of him who is
the Guardian of the Cause and