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6: O ye peoples of the Kingdom! How many a soul ...
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O ye peoples of the Kingdom! How many a soul expended all its span of life in worship, endured the mortification
of the flesh, longed to gain an entry into the Kingdom,
and yet failed, while ye, with neither toil nor pain nor
self-denial, have won the prize and entered in.
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It is even as in the time of the Messiah, when the Pharisees
and the pious were left without a portion, while Peter,
John and Andrew, given neither to pious worship nor
ascetic practice, won the day. Wherefore, thank ye God for
setting upon your heads the crown of glory everlasting, for
granting unto you this immeasurable grace.
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The time hath come when, as a thank-offering for this
bestowal, ye should grow in faith and constancy as day
followeth day, and should draw ever nearer to the Lord,
your God, becoming magnetized to such a degree, and so
aflame, that your holy melodies in praise of the Beloved
will reach upward to the Company on high; and that each
one of you, even as a nightingale in this rose garden of God,
will glorify the Lord of Hosts, and become the teacher of
all who dwell on earth.
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