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Title: The Secret of Divine Civilization

Author: 'Abdu'l-Baha

Release Date: September 2006 [Ebook #19237]

Language: English

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The Secret of Divine Civilization

by 'Abdu'l-Baha

Edition 1, (September 2006)

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In the Name of God the Clement, the Merciful

Praise and thanksgiving be unto Providence that out of all the realities
in existence He has chosen the reality of man and has honored it with
intellect and wisdom, the two most luminous lights in either world.
Through the agency of this great endowment, He has in every epoch cast on
the mirror of creation new and wonderful configuratio