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                     The Light of Divine Guidance [First of Two Volumes] 
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                     Pages 51-53 
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 Letter of 1 October 1933 (Summer School)
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Dear Bahá'í co-workers, 
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     The Guardian has just received your beautiful message of 
Sep. 3rd, 33, written through the kindness of Miss Jack, 
and he has directed me to thank you all for the success that 
has attended your summer school classes at Esslingen.  The 
importance and significance of such annual gatherings are 
immense, since they offer each and every one of you a 
unique opportunity to come and discuss together the ways 
and means whereby the Faith can extend and develop 
throughout Germany.  By the collective spirit, the unity and 
the enthusiasm they create, these meetings serve to 
strengthen the bonds of amity and cooperation among the 
friends and to give them a new vision of the Cause, of its 
imperative needs and requirements in these days of political 
agitation and strife.  The social and political conditions in 
your land are, indeed, very distressing, and if they remain 
unchanged for a long time, may hamper the progress of the 
Faith.  It is now that you should work in utmost unity and in 
the spirit of an unflinching devotion to the ideals and 
teachings of the Cause.  
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     Shoghi Effendi hopes that your summer school will 
increasingly develop and will become an important center 
for the spread of the Message.  You should try to raise its 
intellectual as well as its spiritual standard and to pave the 
way for its future development into one of the foremost 
Bahá'í universities in the West.  Much stress should be laid 
on the thorough study of the history and of the teachings of 
the Cause, and particularly of the nature, basis and 
outstanding features of the Administration.  The severe tests 
and trials through which our German brethren have passed 
during the last few years clearly demonstrate how much 
 
they are in need of a full comprehension of the 
administrative basis of the Cause.  It is hoped that in the 
coming years much progress will be achieved in this respect.  
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     Assuring you all of our Guardian's best wishes and of his 
ardent prayers on your behalf....  
 
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          [From the Guardian:] 
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Dear co-workers:  
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     It is such a joy to learn that you have had the pleasure and 
benefit of the companionship of our dear and distinguished 
Bahá'í sister, Miss Jack, whose recent and exemplary 
services we all deeply appreciate.  I will remember you all in 
my prayers at the holy shrines, and will supplicate for you 
the Beloved's richest blessings.  May He guide your steps and 
cheer your hearts in the service of His glorious and sacred 
Faith, 
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                                     Your true brother, 
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                                                Shoghi 
 
 
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