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Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá `Abbás
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"O thou maid-servant of God!..."
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O thou maid-servant of God!
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What thou hast written was perused and its contents
became manifest. Thou hast questioned how thou
canst accept this divine cause, for thou art a member
of the Church: (Know thou) in the day of the Manifestation
of Christ, many souls became portionless and
deprived (from the favor of God) 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 hast 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 are 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
Abha will baptize the soul. This is the real baptism.
I hope that thou wilt receive this baptism.
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