e power of the Word of God is effective, both in
the spirit and the body, and the influence of the spirit of god is
predominant over the material as well as the essential and spiritual. And
that, verily, God is powerful in all things, and that the signs (or
verses) have exoteric and esoteric meaning, and neither their outward
preventeth their inward, nor doth their inward prevent their outward
meaning.
Greeting and praise to the maid-servant of God, thy revered daughter, and
to all who commemorate the praise of god, long for the Kingdom of God and
are cheerfully moved by the fragrances of God!
"O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of God!..."
O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of God!
Consider not thy capacity and merit, nay rather consider the grace of thy
Lord, the Clement, the Merciful. Verily, thy Lord confirmeth whomsoever He
willeth of His servants, through the glad-tidings of the Kingdom, the
signals of clemency and the spiritual fragrances. forsake every
commemoration and thought in the cell of oblivion (i.e., forget
everything) and confine thy days and time in preaching the Kingdom of God,
spreading the teachings of god and igniting the lights of guidance in the
hearts which are awaiting the Kingdom of God. Truly, I say unto thee, to
be engaged in diffusing the fragrance of God (teaching the Truth) for one
hour of time is better than the dominion of the world and all therein; for
the latter is mortal and temporary, while the former is permanent and
endless. This is the day of Life, the day of Salvation and the day of
Bestowal; it is not the day of death, unless it be martyrdom in the path
of God, or embracing the cross in the love of God.
"O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of God!..."
O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of God!
As to thy question, "If the husband preventeth his wife from entering into
the Light, or the wife preventeth the husband from entering into the
Kingdom of God:" In reality neither one of them preventeth the other from
entering into the Kingdom of God, except when the husband hath a great
attachment to the wife, or the wife to the husband. When either one of the
two adoreth the other to the exclusion of God, then each will prevent the
other from entering into the Kingdom of God.
As to thy question concerning the additions to the Old and New Testament:
Know thou, verily, as people could not understand the words, nor could
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