Thanks be to God, this is a
good meeting. It is very enlightened, it is spiritual. As a Persian Poet has
written:—“The Celestial Universe is so formed that the underworld reflects the
upper world.” That is to say whatever exists in heaven is reflected in this
phenomenal world. Now, praise be to God, this meeting of ours is a reflection
of the heavenly concourse; it is as though we had taken a mirror and had gazed
into it. This reflection from the heavenly concourse we know as love.
As heavenly love exists in
the supreme concourse even so it is reflected here. The supreme concourse is
filled with the desire for God—thank God, this desire is also here. Therefore if we say that this meeting is
heavenly, it is true. Why? Because we have no other desire except for that
which comes from God. We have no other object save the commemoration of God.
- ‘Abdu'l-Baha (From a talk, ‘Abdu'l-Baha in London, September 13, 1911’)
