nd become manifest in the world
of existence. My thoughts are turned towards you, and my heart leaps
within me at your mention. Could ye know how my soul glows with your love,
so great a happiness would flood your hearts as to cause you to become
enamored with each other.

11 The third condition: Teachers must continually travel to all parts of
the continent, nay, rather, to all parts of the world, but they must
travel like 'Abdu'l-Baha, who journeyed throughout the cities of America.
He was sanctified and free from every attachment and in the utmost
severance. Just as His Holiness Christ says: Shake off the very dust from
your feet.(13)

12 You have observed that while in America many souls in the utmost of
supplication and entreaty desired to offer some gifts, but this servant,
in accord with the exhortations and behests of the Blessed Perfection,
never accepted a thing, although on certain occasions we were in most
straitened circumstances. But on the other hand, if a soul for the sake of
God, voluntarily and out of his pure desire, wishes to offer a
contribution (toward the expenses of a teacher) in order to make the
contributor happy, the teacher may accept a small sum, but must live with
the utmost contentment.

13 The aim is this: The intention of the teacher must be pure, his heart
independent, his spirit attracted, his thought at peace, his resolution
firm, his magnanimity exalted and in the love of God a shining torch.
Should he become as such, his sanctified breath will even affect the rock;
otherwise there will be no result whatsoever. As long as a soul is not
perfected, how can he efface the defects of others? Unless he is detached
from aught else save God, how can he teach severance to others?

14 In short, O ye believers of God! Endeavor ye, so that you may take hold
of every means in the promulgation of the religion of God and the
diffusion of the fragrances of God.

15 Amongst other things is the holding of the meetings for teaching so
that blessed souls and the old ones from amongst the believers may gather
together the youths of the love of God in schools of instruction and teach
them all the divine proofs and irrefragable arguments, explain and
elucidate the history of the Cause, and interpret also the prophecies and
proofs which are recorded and are extant in the divine books and epistles
regarding the manifestation of the Promised One, so that the young ones
may go in perfect knowledge in all