of God and the maid-servants of the Merciful One,
do ye not rest for one moment! Do ye not seek any composure! Do ye not
wish for any rest and ease! Endeavor and make ye an effort with all your
heart and soul to spread the fragrances of Paradise, to raise the eternal
melody of the Kingdom of Abha, to establish the gathering of fellowship,
to become assisted with the confirmations of the Holy Spirit; to clothe
the temple of existence with a new garment; to bestow eternal life upon
the reality of souls; to become a cause of the civilization of the human
world; to characterize the bloodthirsty animals with the heavenly
attributes and divine commemorations; to pacify the world with peace and
salvation, and to adorn man with the favors of His Highness the Merciful
One; that perchance ignorance, animosity and strangeness may be removed
entirely from among the denizens of the world, and the Banner of
Reconciliation, Freedom, Nobleness and Oneness be hoisted; for the chains
of existence contain countless links, each connected with the other. This
connection is the cause of the appearance of the invisible powers in the
world of the visible.

O ye real friends! Make ye an effort that this universe may become another
universe and this darkened world find a ray of the Sun of Truth and become
luminous and refulgent.

I entreat God that this favor may be realized and this unending outpouring
become manifest and apparent, and the friends of God be confirmed by every
bounty.

"O ye blessed souls!..."

O ye(243) blessed souls!

On the night of the feast ye entertained the beloved and were occupied in
the service of the friends of God and the maid-servants of the Merciful
One. Service to the sons and the daughters of the Kingdom is the diadem of
everlasting glory with which ye have crowned your heads, the garment of
eternal sovereignty with which ye have adorned your bodies, and the throne
of majesty and grandeur of heaven upon which ye sat. Abdul-Baha found the
utmost rejoicing from that feast and he was a host in his heart and soul,
praying and entreating at the Threshold of Oneness that the breaths of the
Holy Spirit waft, the angels of mercy descend and the confirmations of the
Kingdom of Abha surround you upon all sides.

Rest ye assured that ye will become illumined, spiritual and celestial,
and your services were accepted and praised at the Threshold of Oneness.

"O ye two kind and beloved maid-servants of Go