The first Spirit through which all spirits were
revealed, and the first Light by which all lights shone forth, rest upon thee,
O Most Exalted Leaf, [1] thou who hast been mentioned in the Crimson Book! Thou
art the one whom God created to arise and serve His own Self, and the
Manifestation of His Cause, and the Day-Spring of His Revelation, and the
Dawning-Place of His signs, and the Source of His commandments; and Who so
aided thee that thou didst turn with thy whole being unto Him, at a time when
His servants and handmaidens had turned away from His Face. ...Happy art thou,
O My handmaiden, and My Leaf, and the one mentioned in My Book, and inscribed
by My Pen of Glory in My Scrolls and Tablets. ...Rejoice thou, at this moment,
in the most exalted Station and the All-highest Paradise, and the Abhá Horizon,
inasmuch as He Who is the Lord of Names hath remembered thee. We bear witness
that thou didst attain unto all good, and that God hath so exalted thee, that
all honor and glory circled around thee.
(Baha’u’llah,
quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated December
21, 1939; ‘Messages to America’)
[1] “the mother of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá”
