of God
thereupon, and irrigate them with the rain of the knowledge of God. Rest
ye assured that heavenly blessing will be bestowed!

It is my hope that in that farm ye will become divine farmers. The
enlightened people of Japan are tired and disgusted with the superannuated
and putrefied blind imitations. They are assured that these blind
imitations are pure superstitions without any truth. Therefore they have
capacity to hear the Call of God. The land is untouched. We will have to
see what the divine farmers will do!

At present thou hast started a journal. It is my hope that this journal
will shine as the Star of the East. In the journal write thus:

When the horizon of the East was covered with immense darkness; when dark
clouds were predominant, and when all the heavenly stars were concealed to
the eye, His Holiness Baha'u'llah, like unto the sun shone forth from the
horizon of the East and with radiating splendor He illumined the Orient.

[Photograph with the following caption:]

Mr. and Mrs. Tokujiro Torii with Miss Alexander in 1916.

The light of the Sun of Reality consisted of heavenly teachings which were
spread in the Orient, because there the obscurities of blind imitations of
religions, sectarian, racial, political, economic and home prejudices were
in ascendancy. The darkness of these prejudices had dominated the Oriental
world to such a degree that it had blinded all the eyes and deafened all
the ears. There prevailed quarrel and strife, warfare and bloodshed.

In short, it has a long description, but I mention it briefly. When the
Sun of Truth shone forth with all might and energy, these obscure and dark
clouds dispersed and the splendid Day presented to the eye an aspect with
such freshness and beauty that the wise became astonished; the sick were
cured; the blind received sight; the deaf obtained hearing; the dumb
proved eloquent, and the dead quickened. A heavenly table was spread in
the Orient. The divine teachings like unto an unshakable edifice were
instituted.

The first principle of Baha'u'llah is independent investigation of truth,
that is, all the nations of the world have to investigate after truth
independently and turn their eyes from the moribund blind imitations of
the past ages entirely. Truth is one when it is independently
investigated, it does not accept division. Therefore the independent
investigation of truth will lead to the oneness of the world of humanity.

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