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Bahíyyih Khánum
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Pages 58-59
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25: Moved by an unalterable devotion to the ...
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Moved by an unalterable devotion to the memory of the Greatest Holy Leaf, I feel prompted
to share with you, and through you with the
concourse of her steadfast lovers throughout the
West, these significant passages
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which I have
gleaned from various Tablets revealed in her honour
by Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá.
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Impregnated with that love after which the soul of
a humanity in travail now hungers, these passages
disclose, to the extent that our finite minds can
comprehend, the nature of that mystic bond which,
on one hand, united her with the Spirit of her
almighty Father and, on the other, linked her so
closely with her glorious Brother, the perfect
Exemplar of that Spirit.
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The memory of her who was a pattern of
goodness, of a pure and holy life, who was the
embodiment of such heavenly virtues as only the
privileged inmates of the uppermost chambers in the
Abhá Paradise can fully appreciate, will long live
enshrined in these immortal words--a memory the
ennobling influence of which will remain an inspiration
and a solace amid the wreckage of a sadly
shaken world.
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Conscious of the predominating share assumed,
in recent years, by the American believers in alleviating
the burden which that most exalted Leaf
bore so heroically in the evening of her life, I can do
no better than entrust into their hands these prized
testimonies of the Founder of our Faith and of the
Centre of His Covenant. I feel confident that their
elected representatives will take whatever measures
are required for their prompt and wide circulation
among their brethren throughout the West. They
will, thereby, be contributing still further to the
repayment of the great debt they owe her in the
prosecution of a mighty and divinely-appointed
task.
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Notes
1. [Included in Sections I and II.]
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