Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá `Abbás
Pages 670-671
 

"O thou dear servant of God!..."
 
1

O thou dear servant of God!

 
2

During the time of thy visit here the meanings of the words of Christ, "Let the dead bury their dead," was explained to thee. Those souls who are not vivified and attracted by the Holy Spirit, are accounted among the dead, because their souls are deprived of the breath of the Holy Spirit, and these persons after physical death are in a certain condition, having feeling and discernment in their environment, but in comparison with the pure souls who have been vivified by the Holy Spirit, they are as dead and deprived.

 
3

For example: The mineral kingdom in comparison with the vegetable is lifeless; also the existence of the animal kingdom in comparison with that of man is death. The meaning is not that the neglectful souls will be non-existent.

 
4

Give my loving greeting to all the servants of God and the sharers of divinity.