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Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá `Abbás
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Pages 660-661
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"O ye who are attracted by the Fragrances of God!..."
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O ye
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who are attracted by the Fragrances of God!
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Verily, this mundane world is as the mirage of the
desert, but the Kingdom is like unto a sea of great
surges and rolling waves. Those who longed for the
mirage have indeed become more thirsty the more they
hastened toward it and have perished in grief after a
drop of water.
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Ye see, as the condition really is, that the people of
the world are striving day and night for the sake of
attaining perfect happiness and tranquil life, but the result
is none other to them than disappointment, affliction,
lamentation and destruction.
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But those who have advanced to the Kingdom of
God have assuredly advanced to a sea of clear and
limpid water and thus have attained unto the greatest
bounty, the perfect rest and the eternal life to which
there is no abrupt end. Their faces have shined with
joy, their souls delighted with pleasure, their hearts
illumined and their cups overflowed with abundance.
Their edifice hath risen high, their palaces have been
adorned, their suns shone, their stars gleamed and their
diadems radiated with a dazzling light. Their dominions
have expanded and their lights have spread to all
ages and generations. These are their set-up thrones,
their high palaces, their luminous lamps and their shining
moons throughout all horizons. These are their
traces in the world; how much more then would be
their lights in the highest of the high - consider, therefore,
O ye maid-servants of the Merciful!
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This being the case, care no more for the world and
its desires, but cling to the spiritual world and its gifts,
spread the fragrances of God, be submissive to the
Word of God, establish a spiritual meeting-place
wherefrom theincense of sanctity and purity will rise
up to God, assemble there with fragrance and spirituality
and celebrate the Name of your Lord by day and
by night. At that time ye would become illumined
lamps, spiritual stars; rather, eternal suns. This is a
favor that was longed for by the spirits of the godly
people and the hearts of the queens in the former ages.
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Notes
1. [To the California maid-servants.]
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