This period of time is the Promised Age, the assembling of
the human race to the “Resurrection Day”, and now is the great “Day of
Judgement”. Soon the whole world, as in spring-time, will change its garb. The
turning and falling of the autumn leaves is past; the bleakness of the winter-time
is over. The new year hath appeared and the spiritual spring-time is at hand.
The black earth is becoming a verdant garden; the deserts and mountains are
teeming with red flowers; from the borders of wilderness the tall grasses are
standing like advance guards before the cypress and jessamine trees; while the
birds are singing among the rose branches like angels in the highest heavens,
announcing the glad tidings of the approach of that spiritual spring, and the
sweet music of their voices is causing the real essence of all things to move
and quiver.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; Star of the West, vol. 6, no. 19,
March 2, 1916)
