Tablet to August Forel

O revered personage, lover of truth! Thy letter dated 28 July 19211 hath been received. The contents thereof were most pleasing and indicated that, praised be the Lord, thou art as yet young, and searchest after truth, that thy power of thought is strong and the discoveries of thy mind manifest.

Numerous copies of the epistle I had written to Dr. F. are spread far and wide and every one knoweth that it hath been revealed in the year 1910. Apart from this, numerous epistles have been written before the war upon the same theme, and reference, too, hath been made to these questions in the Journal of the San Francisco University, the date whereof is known beyond any doubt.2 In like manner have the philosophers of broad vision praised highly the discourse eloquently delivered

1 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá is obviously referring to the letter from Forel translated above and dated 28 December 1920.

2 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá refers to His talk at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, in 1912, which was published in the local newspaper and is also included in the collection of His talks in America, entitled The Promulgation of Universal Peace.