O ye beloved of the Merciful! The Abhá Beauty hath shone
forth with His manifold names and attributes from the Dawning-Point of all
desires. He hath caused this glorious century to become the revealer of His
wondrous grace through the effulgence of this new light, and hath set aglow the
candle of unity in the world of being. In sweet accents of oneness and in
celestial melodies proclaiming Divine Unity, He hath warbled upon the branches
of the garden of inner meanings so as to gather the scattered peoples of the
world under the shadow of the Word of God and bring the hostile and contentious
tribes of the earth together in unity and harmony beneath the canopy of the
love of God. - ’Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; ‘Light of the World’)
