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Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá `Abbás
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Pages 150-151
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"O servant of God!..."
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O servant of God!
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The content of thy letter was replete with spiritual
feelings and was a source of pleasure and of joy.
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Of my freedom thou hast expressed great joy. I am
free, although I should remain in prison. All fortresses
and castles shall not confine me, and the dungeon
cannot bring me under the narrow bondage of
the world. The spirit is every soaring, even if the body
be in the depths. What can these ignorant creatures
do? They might imprison the body, but the spirit
they cannot; the spirit will ever soar in the atmosphere
of eternal bliss and glory. Therefore, neither the
prison is a cause of sorrow, nor freedom from it a source
of joy.
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When thou findest the way to the Kingdom, the
earthly world shall be of no account; and when thou
art illumined the darkness will not affect thee -- nay,
rather the four corners of the earth will then be radiant
and every thorn will become a rose and a
rose-garden.
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