O friends! How blessed, how favoured, how fortunate are ye
to have been born in such a cycle and dispensation and to live in such an age
and century, to have come upon such a wellspring and bowed down before such a threshold,
to have taken shelter beneath the shade of such a tree and partaken of such a
fruit. The cycle is the Cycle of the Ancient Beauty, and the century that of
the Greatest Name. The wellspring is the stream of the Law of God, and the
threshold that of the Abhá Beauty. The tree is the Tree of Life, and the fruit
that of the Divine Lote-Tree. Blessed are they that attain thereunto! Fortunate
are they that enter therein! Gladdened are they that draw nigh unto it! And
happy are they that abide under its shade! All praise be to God, the Lord of
the worlds. - ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; ‘Light of the World’)
