y Word.

O Lord! O Lord! Make them lamps of guidance, lights glistening in the
supreme apex, sparkling stars in heaven, holy angels moving on earth and
thriving trees bearing delicious and fragrant fruits.

O Lord! O Lord! Purify their qualities, clarify their consciousness,
cleanse their hearts and illumine their faces. Verily Thou art the
Powerful, the Precious, the Protecting!

O ye spiritual ones! The rules for election are those which are customary
in that country. The period of election is five years.

O Lord! O Lord! Bless this Spiritual Gathering, strengthen them by Thy
power for the spreading of Thy divine fragrances, cause them to follow Thy
will which is effective in the realities of all things, and aid them by a
confirmation such as never hath preceded to any one in former
centuries.(9) For these are servants of Thy servants and Thou hast crowned
them them with this diadem, the most luminous (Abha) gems of which will
shine unto all the horizons.

Verily Thou art the Powerful, the Mighty, the Giver!

"O ye who are sincere! O ye who are firm! O ye who..."

O ye who are sincere! O ye who are firm! O ye who are steadfast!

Verily, I received a letter from that brilliant body and Spiritual
Gathering--those who have arisen and called out for the Kingdom of God
among the peoples of America.

Verily, know with certain knowledge that ye will be confirmed by hosts
from the Kingdom of El-Abha and with inspirations from the Supreme
Concourse in the promotion of the Word of God. Verily, Abdul-Baha is with
you and supplicates unto God, desiring His heavenly blessings to surround
you, His divine favors to encompass you, the appearances of the Sun of
Truth to shine in your hearts, the glad tidings of God to rejoice your
spirits, the fragrances of holiness to perfume your nostrils, the verses
of guidance to be chanted in your gatherings, and the lamp of the Supreme
Concourse to illumine your meetings. Know with real assurance that this
light will encompass the horizons (the world) with great brilliancy.

I ask God to make ye lamps ignited by the great Light, so that ye may
stand with all power, meekness, humbleness, sacrifice and self-resignation
and thus become examples for the people and pure types for the world, be
salt of the earth, stars of guidance, great trees with broad foliage and
excellent fruits of fragrant scent, growing by the bounty of the cloud of
the Kingdom of El-Abha.

I praise God that