In the Day of the Manifestation, you
have caught the lights from the Manifestor on the Mount of Sinai and beheld the
splendor of the Ray of Truth. Ye are the children of the Period of Baha’u’llah
and have become the appearance of the Effulgence of Mercifulness in the Day
wherein the rays of the Divine Sun radiate upon all things. Tear down the old
garment and clad your sanctified temples with the new robe! Ye have passed from
the salty water of ignorance and have drunk the salubrious salsabil of knowledge.
Ye have closed your eyes to the wine of heedlessness and became intoxicated
with the choice sealed wine of intelligence! Ye have taken the cup of
prosperity from the cupbearer of the Covenant and with infinite rejoicing,
happiness and beatitude celebrated the Feast of beholding the rays of the Orb
of regions!
(‘Abdu'l-Baha, from a Tablet addressed to the “Believers of God in
Ghalé Darré, Persia; Star of the West, vol. 1, no. 15, December 12, 1910)
