…California and the
other Western States must earn an ideal similarity with the Holy Land, and from
that state and that region the breaths of the Holy Spirit be diffused to all
parts of America and Europe, that the call of the Kingdom of God may exhilarate
and rejoice all the ears, the divine principles bestow a new life, the
different parties may become one party, the divergent ideas may disappear and
revolve around one unique center, the East and the West of America may embrace
each other, the anthem of the oneness of the world of humanity may confer a new
life upon all the children of men, and the tabernacle of universal peace be
pitched on the apex of America; thus Europe and Africa may become vivified with
the breaths of the Holy Spirit, this world may become another world, the body
politic may attain to a new exhilaration, and just as in the state of
California and other Western States the marvelous scenes of the world of nature
are evident and manifest, the great signs of the Kingdom of God may also be
unveiled so that the body may correspond with the spirit, the outward world may
become a symbol of the inward world, and the mirror of the earth may become the
mirror of the Kingdom, reflecting the ideal virtues of heaven.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets
of the Divine Plan’)
