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Selections From the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá
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Pages 110-112
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73: O daughter of the Kingdom! Thy letter hath come ...
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O daughter of the Kingdom! Thy letter hath come and its contents make clear the fact that thou hast directed
all thy thoughts toward acquiring light from the realms of
mystery. So long as the thoughts of an individual are
scattered he will achieve no results, but if his thinking be
concentrated on a single point wonderful will be the fruits
thereof.
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One cannot obtain the full force of the sunlight when it
is cast on a flat mirror, but once the sun shineth upon a concave
mirror, or on a lens that is convex, all its heat will be
concentrated on a single point, and that one point will burn
the hottest. Thus is it necessary to focus one's thinking on a
single point so that it will become an effective force.
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Thou didst wish to celebrate the Day of Ridván with a
feast, and to have those present on that day engage in
reciting Tablets with delight and joy, and thou didst
request me to send thee a letter to be read on that day. My
letter is this:
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O ye beloved, and ye handmaids of the Merciful! This is
the day when the Day-Star of Truth rose over the horizon
of life, and its glory spread, and its brightness shone out
with such power that it clove the dense and high-piled
clouds and mounted the skies of the world in all its splendour.
Hence do ye witness a new stirring throughout all
created things.
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See how, in this day, the scope of sciences and arts hath
widened out, and what wondrous technical advances have
been made, and to what a high degree the mind's powers
have increased, and what stupendous inventions have
appeared.
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This age is indeed as a hundred other ages: should ye
gather the yield of a hundred ages, and set that against the
accumulated product of our times, the yield of this one era
will prove greater than that of a hundred gone before. Take
ye, for an example, the sum total of all the books that were
ever written in ages past, and compare that with the books
and treatises that our era hath produced: these books,
written in our day alone, far and away exceed the total
number of volumes that have been written down the ages.
See how powerful is the influence exerted by the Day-Star
of the world upon the inner essence of all created things!
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But alas, a thousand times alas! The eyes see it not, the
ears are deaf, and the hearts and minds are oblivious of this
supreme bestowal. Strive ye then, with all your hearts and
souls, to awaken those who slumber, to cause the blind to
see, and the dead to rise.
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