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Bahá'í World Faith (`Abdu'l-Bahá's Section Only)
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Page 390
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THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH
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Thou hast questioned how thou canst accept this divine Cause,
for thou art a member of the church. In the day of the Manifestation
of Christ, many souls became portionless and deprived because
they were members of the Holy of Holies in Jerusalem. According
to that membership, they became veiled from that brilliant Beauty.
Therefore, turn thou thy face to the Church of God which consists
in divine instructions and merciful exhortations. For what similarity
is there between the church of stone and cement and the
celestial Holy of Holies!
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Endeavor that thou mayest enter in this Church of God. Although
thou has given oath to attend the church, yet thy spirit is
under the Covenant and Testament of the spiritual Divine Church.
Thou shouldst protect this. Although they consider the wine and
the bread in the church as the blood and body of Christ, yet this
is but the appearance and not the reality. But the reality of Christ
is the words of the Holy Spirit. If thou art able, take a portion
thereof.
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The performance of baptismal celebration would cleanse the
body, but the spirit hath no share; but the divine teachings and
the exhortations of the Beauty of Abhá will baptize the soul. This
is the real baptism. I hope that thou wilt receive this baptism.
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