O maid-servant of God! Verily, the tests and trials of God
are very great and very violent. Beseech thou God to protect thee from all
doubts and to guard thee from the interpretations of parabolical [1] verses, as
made by those who know not in what valley they are roving, who speak according
to their own selfish purposes and after their own evil inclinations; who accept
and then reject; who believe in God and then deny Him; and who appear firm and
then backslide: thus thou beholdest these oscillating daily.
“Leave them to amuse themselves with their own vain
discourses,” and turn thou to the light of the Testament, and rejoice at the
bounty of the effulgence, and seek shelter under the shadow of the standard of
the Covenant. Thou wilt soon find it fluttering on the highest summits of
glory, surrounded by the valiant hosts of the angels of heaven and assisted by
spiritual armies of great number that proceed from the Supreme Concourse.
[1] Texts relating to parables and which are veiled in
symbols and have esoteric meanings.
