dul-Baha! The East is illumined, the West is perfumed
and the world is in motion and acceleration. Such a tumult is visible in
the regions; and such a spiritual commotion is perceived in the pillars of
the earth! The fame of the grandeur of the Word of God hath reached the
ears of the inhabitants of the world, and the voice of the Cause of God
holdeth universal sway! It is the time for joy and happiness and the
moment of exhileration and ecstasy. One must live in accord with the
exhortations and advices of the Blessed Perfection and behave with such
deeds and actions as to become conducive to the illumination of the world
and the manifestion of mercifulness among the nations.

All the denizens of the earth, the communities and the people have taken
an axe in their hands to uproot the life-tree of each other; they are
blood-thirsty and the instigators of corruption; they are armed to the
teeth with destructive implements; each seeketh the death and annihilation
of the other. But the heavenly power, the divine energy and the celestial
hand of strength, hath raised the canopy of the oneness of the realm of
humanity on the pinnacle of the contingent being and hoisted the standard
of the most great peace, friendship, love, uprightness and the adoration
of truth. The friends are the servants of this canopy and the beloved are
the hosts of this standard. Therefore they must with one accord arise to
that which is the requirement and the merit of this day, become
overflowing with joy and beatitude, perfume the nostrils with the
fragrances, sweeten the tastes with the honey and delicacy of love, become
the signs of guidance, be the glad-tidings of the Supreme Concourse and
the army of the Kingdom of Abha; so that they may destroy the edifice of
war and bloodshed, efface the traces of battle and strife from the face of
the earth, uproot the tree of foreignness and plant the tree of unity in
the rose-garden of the regions, extinguish the fire of hatred and
animosity and set in motion the sea of love and affinity, erase the traces
of discord from the Tablet of the earth and register thereon the verses of
concord, clear the field of existence from the thorns and brambles of
hostilities and ill-feeling and adorn it with the hyacinths and anemones
of harmony, train and educate the souls and loosen the tongue in the
delivery of the instructions and teachings of the Blessed Perfection!

"O ye beloved ones! It is the moment of the ec