Consequently, those
souls who are in a condition of the utmost severance, purified from the defects
of the world of nature, sanctified from attachment to this earth, vivified with
the breaths of eternal life—with luminous hearts, with heavenly spirit, with
attraction of consciousness, with celestial magnanimity, with eloquent tongues
and with clear explanations—such souls must hasten and travel through all parts
of the Central States [of America]. In every city and village they must occupy
themselves with the diffusion of the divine exhortations and advices, guide the
souls and promote the oneness of the world of humanity. They must play the
melody of international conciliation with such power that every deaf one may
attain hearing, every extinct person may be set aglow, every dead one may
obtain new life and every indifferent soul may find ecstasy. It is certain that
such will be the consummation.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of the Divine Plan’)
