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Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá `Abbás
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Pages 31-33
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"O ye crying voices in the region of America!..."
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O ye
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crying voices in the region of America!
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Make level the path of the Covenant of God! BE
firm in the Alliance of God!
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I surely read your answer to my words, and my heart
overflowed with joy and fragrance, when I heard of
your supplication to God, and of your entreaty to God,
and of your begging assistance of God, and of your
endeavor in the service of the Cause of God, and of
your effort in publishing the Alliance of God, and of
your yearning after and your longing for harmony and
union in the love of God.
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Ye shall soon behold the lights of confirmation shining
forth unto your hearts and your spirits from the
Kingdom of ABHA.
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Stand up, as the standing of the souls by whose lights
of sincerity in the Cause of God the horizons are shining,
and guard the sheep of God with the staff of the
instructions of God.
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I beg God to confirm thee to His will, as He confirmed
the Apostles (of Jesus) aforetime.
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I know, verily, that the universal, never ending,
eternal, bright and divine establishments are only the
diffusing of the breaths of God, and the spreading of
the instructions of God, and all that are beside these,
though they be the reigning over all the regions of the
earth, or the construction of railroads from the earth
to the heavens, or means of transportation with the
rapidity of rising lightning from the globe of earth
to the globe of the sun, all are but mortal, perishing,
demolishing and disadvantageous, in comparison with
the divine establishments. Because the latter (divine
establishments) are intrinsic matters, while the former
are but metaphorical matters; the latter are truth, while
the former are imaginary.
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Verily, I yearn after your visit as the yearning of the
thirsty after the fountain of the water of Euphrates
(agreeable water), but at present your remaining in
that region (America) is obligatory. Please God, when
it will be the occasion, I will inform you to come; and
(now) I will circumambulate instead of you the Holy
Tomb.
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Glory be upon you!
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Notes
1. [To the believers in general throughout America.]
2. [The Tomb of BAHA'O'LLAH.]
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