you the pearls that lay concealed in the depths of His everlasting
ocean. I have summoned the Maids of Heaven to emerge from behind the veil
of concealment, and have clothed them with these words of Mine--words of
consummate power and wisdom. I have, moreover, with the hand of divine
power, unsealed the choice wine of My Revelation, and have wafted its
holy, its hidden, and musk-laden fragrance upon all created things. Who
else but yourselves is to be blamed if ye choose to remain unendowed with
so great an outpouring of God's transcendent and all-encompassing grace,
with so bright a revelation of His resplendent mercy?...

O My servants! There shineth nothing else in Mine heart except the
unfading light of the Morn of Divine guidance, and out of My mouth
proceedeth naught but the essence of truth, which the Lord your God hath
revealed. Follow not, therefore, your earthly desires, and violate not the
Covenant of God, nor break your pledge to Him. With firm determination,
with the whole affection of your heart, and with the full force of your
words, turn ye unto Him, and walk not in the ways of the foolish. The
world is but a show, vain and empty, a mere nothing, bearing the semblance
of reality. Set not your affections upon it. Break not the bond that
uniteth you with your Creator, and be not of those that have erred and
strayed from His ways. Verily I say, the world is like the vapor in a
desert, which the thirsty dreameth to be water and striveth after it with
all his might, until when he cometh unto it, he findeth it to be mere
illusion. It may, moreover, be likened unto the lifeless image of the
beloved whom the lover hath sought and found, in the end, after long
search and to his utmost regret, to be such as cannot "fatten nor appease
his hunger."

O My servants! Sorrow not if, in these days and on this earthly plane,
things contrary to your wishes have been ordained and manifested by God,
for days of blissful joy, of heavenly delight, are assuredly in store for
you. Worlds, holy and spiritually glorious, will be unveiled to your eyes.
You are destined by Him, in this world and hereafter, to partake of their
benefits, to share in their joys, and to obtain a portion of their
sustaining grace. To each and every one of them you will, no doubt,
attain.

CLIV: WARN, O SALMAN, THE BELOVED OF THE ONE...

Warn, O Salman, the beloved of the one true God, not to view with too
critical an eye the sayings and wri