O thou heavenly, brilliant and precious pearl! I greet thee
from this Holy Land with a fragrance from God and I desire that thy heart
become animated through the gentle breeze of God, thy bosom dilated with joy by
the miracles of the gifts of God, thine eye consoled by seeing the lights of
God, thy tongue by uttering the mention of Baha’u’llah, and thy taste to become
sweet through the divine table descending from heaven. Verily, I say unto thee
that the gifts of thy Lord are encircling thee in a similar way as the spirit
encircles the body at the beginning of the amalgamation of the elements and
natures in the womb; the power of the spirit begins then to appear in the body
gradually and successively according to the preparation and capacity to receive
that everlasting abundance. I ask God to help thee that the spirit will carry
out its power in thee as desired and wished.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of
‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1’)
