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73: O daughter of the Kingdom! Thy letter hath come … |
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
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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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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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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,
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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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