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Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá `Abbás
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Pages 193-194
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"O thou who art advancing toward God!..."
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O thou who art advancing toward God!
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What thou has written was perused. Thou hast
written concerning the meeting of His Highness Christ
after the crucifixion and that some of the apostles perceived
Him but did not recognize Him; but that they
did recognize Him after the breaking of bread.
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Know thou that the Messianic Spirit and the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit is always manifest, but
capacity and ability (to receive it) is more in some
and less in others. After the crucifixion the apostles
had not in the beginning the capacity and ability of
witnessing the Messianic reality. For they were agitated.
But when they found firmness and steadfastness
their inner sight became opened, and they saw
the reality of the Messiah as manifest. For the body
of Christ was crucified and vanished, but the Spirit of
Christ is always pouring upon the contingent world,
and is manifest before the insight of the people of
assurance.
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O thou seeker of the kingdom of God! If thou
wishest thy speech and utterance to take effect in the
hardened hearts, be thou severed from all attachment
to this world and turn unto the Kingdom of God. Enkindle
the fire of the love of God in the heart with
such intensity that thou mayest become a flame of fire
and a luminous lamp of guidance. At that time thy
speech will take effect within the hearts, through the
confirmation of the Holy Spirit.
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