enerous, the Merciful, the Forgiving!"

At that time such signs will appear which will guide thee to the Kingdom
of Thy Lord, the Merciful.

The babe dressed in the white garment that gave thee the jessamine is a
fragrance of the fragrances of God, reared through His love, a sign of His
signs and a breeze of His breezes. It hath a wonderful power and there
shall be for it astonishing states to the minds and spirits. Understand
what I say to thee through the best of symbols.

"O thou maid-servant of God!..."

O thou maid-servant of God!

Thy writing was considered. Thank God that thou wert fed from the table
which hath descended from heaven. That food is the "I am the bread which
descended from heaven," recorded in the Gospel. That is faith, certainty,
love and knowledge. I ask God that, day by day, thy steps may progress,
that thou mayest grow firmer in the love of God; that unto thee and thy
kindred a blessing of God shall come, and that thou mayest remain
protected and sheltered under all conditions. Thus, may thy weakness be
changed to strength and thy inability to power.

"O ye dear servants of God!...."

O ye(305) dear servants of God!

Your letter received and the contents proved excellent. That which is the
desire of you hearts is the utmost hope of the daughters of the Kingdom;
that is, they wish to sacrifice themselves for the Beauty of Abha(306) and
offer their lives for His Holiness, the Supreme.(307)

In reality, the radiant, pure hearts are the Mashrak-el-Azcar and from
them the voice of supplication and invocation continually reacheth the
Supreme Concourse.

I ask God to make the heart of every one of you a temple of the Divine
Temples and to let the lamp of the great guidance be lighted therein; and
when the hearts find such an attainment, they will certainly exert the
utmost endeavor and energy in the building of the Mashrak-el-Azcar; thus
may the outward express the inward, and the form (or letter) indicate the
meaning (or reality).

"O servant of God!..."

O servant of God!

Give thanks to God, for thou hast come to the Holy Land, visited the
Sacred Threshold, associated with us for a few days and heard the divine
admonitions, which are in the heavenly Books. Now return, behave and act
with perfect firmness, according to the heavenly teachings, in those
regions, in order that you may become the cause by which human perfections
will be attained.

"O thou w