The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh
Author: Bahá’u’lláh
Source: US Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1985 reprint
Pages: 52
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“39: O OFFSPRING OF DUST! Be not content with the ease of a passing day,…”

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O OFFSPRING OF DUST! Be not content with the ease of a passing day, and deprive not thyself of everlasting rest. Barter not the garden of eternal delight for the dust-heap of a mortal world. Up from thy prison ascend unto the glorious meads above, and from thy mortal cage wing thy flight unto the paradise of the Placeless.
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