Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
Volume III
O thou seeker of Truth!
The
Lord of Hosts became manifest to
Moses and the children of Israel in a pillar of fire, and appeared to Christ in the fire of the love of God. This is that of which it is said in the
Gospel: One must be baptized with fire and spirit.
Now the lights of the divine bounties of the fire of the love of God have shone forth in the word and letters. That is, the words and letters are similar to a mirror, and the Sun of Truth and the Rays of Significances have become manifest and shone forth in these mirrors of words and letters.
Seek thou from God that thy heart may be as one of these letters, until the Eternal Bounty may cast a ray of splendor therein.
Pay attention minutely and cogitate, until thou mayest apprehend the meaning of this explanation and advance day by day, like unto thy dear mother.
O thou that mirror in which the Light of Guidance is printed!
I was informed of thy prayer, thy supplication and thy beseeching. Know thou verily:
My throne is my mat!
My glorious crown in my servitude toward God!
My standard is the commemoration of my Lord!
My hosts are the knowledge of my Master!
My sword is the guidance of God!
My dominion is my humility, my submissiveness, my lowliness, my abasement, my supplication and my beseeching unto God—this is that permanent reign which no one is able to dispute, gainsay or usurp!
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