l and everlasting and has no abrupt end.
(Question: "When is the time of the millenium? Will I see it?)
Concerning the one thousand years as recorded in the Book: It signifieth
the beginning of this Manifestation until the end of its predominance
throughout the contingent world; because this Cause is great, its powers
are growing and its signs are dazzling. It shall continue in elevation,
exaltation, growth, promulgation and promotion until it shall reach the
apex of its glory in one thousand years--as the day of this Manifestation
is one thousand years. Thou shalt see its conquering power, its manifest
dominion, its eternal might and its everlasting glory.
(Question: "At the time of thy departure will there not be some great
spiritual manifestation all over the earth?")
As to the question of "after my departure" to the neighborhood of the
mercy of my Lord: Know there shall appear wonderful traces; the breath of
God shall pass by; the fragrance of God shall spread and the Spirit of God
shall run in the body of the contingent world both before and after my
departure; but I supplicate God that He may grant the greatest
spirituality in these days. Endeavor, therefore, that thou mayest have a
great portion in it.
(Question: "What did the vision of a paper signify in my dream?")
Concerning the appearance of a paper in thy dream, before thine eyes,
which thou wast unable to read: Thou shalt read it through the permission
of God and thou shalt comprehend its meanings. It is a diary of the Word
of God and the divine mysteries.
"O ye who are attracted by the Fragrances of God!..."
O ye(296) who are attracted by the Fragrances of God!
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.
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.
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 shin
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