O ye shining Assembly![1] The meeting that you organized
hath attracted the divine gaze and the subject of your conversation was the
divine commemoration. A ray from the Kingdom of Abha fell upon that assemblage
and that meeting was adorned, and a number of souls, supplicants to God, were
gathered in that meeting. If this assembly continues as it is befitting and
behooving, great results will thereby appear and conduce to the illumination of
those parts, spiritual progress will ensue, the lights of the Sun of Truth will
shine, hearts will be illumined, eyes will become seeing, ears become hearing,
the lukewarm (or withdrawn ones) become aflame, the inanimate (or numbed ones)
will be enkindled in soul and an ecstasy will come to all by which those
present will be astonished.
('Abdu'l-Baha, 'Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas, vol, 2')
[1] Cleveland, Ohio
