ings. Turn ye away from all that is on
earth and seek none else but Me. I am the Sun of Wisdom and the Ocean of
Knowledge. I cheer the faint and revive the dead. I am the guiding Light
that illumineth the way. I am the royal Falcon on the arm of the Almighty.
I unfold the drooping wings of every broken bird and start it on its
flight.

And likewise He saith: The heaven of true understanding shineth
resplendent with the light of two luminaries: tolerance and righteousness.

O my friend! Vast oceans lie enshrined within this brief saying. Blessed
are they who appreciate its value, drink deep therefrom and grasp its
meaning, and woe betide the heedless. This lowly one entreateth the people
of the world to observe fairness, that their tender, their delicate and
precious hearing which hath been created to hearken unto the words of
wisdom may be freed from impediments and from such allusions, idle fancies
or vain imaginings as 'cannot fatten nor appease the hunger', so that the
true Counsellor may be graciously inclined to set forth that which is the
source of blessing for mankind and of the highest good for all nations.

At present the light of reconciliation is dimmed in most countries and its
radiance extinguished while the fire of strife and disorder hath been
kindled and is blazing fiercely. Two great powers who regard themselves as
the founders and leaders of civilization and the framers of constitutions
have risen up against the followers of the Faith associated with Him Who
conversed with God.(59) Be ye warned, O men of understanding. It ill
beseemeth the station of man to commit tyranny; rather it behoveth him to
observe equity and be attired with the raiment of justice under all
conditions. Beseech ye the One true God that He may, through the power of
the hand of loving-kindness and spiritual education, purge and purify
certain souls from the defilement of evil passions and corrupt desires,
that they may arise and unloose their tongues for the sake of God, that
perchance the evidences of injustice may be blotted out and the splendour
of the light of justice may shed its radiance upon the whole world. The
people are ignorant, and they stand in need of those who will expound the
truth.

The Great Being saith: The man of consummate learning and the sage endowed
with penetrating wisdom are the two eyes to the body of mankind. God
willing, the earth shall never be deprived of these two greatest gifts.
That which hath