Drink ye, O handmaidens of God the Mystic Wine from the cup
of My words. Cast away, then, from you that which your minds abhor, for it hath
been forbidden unto you in His Tablets and His Scriptures. Beware lest ye
barter away the River that is life indeed for that which the souls of the
pure-hearted detest. Become ye intoxicated with the wine of the love of God,
and not with that which deadeneth your minds, O ye that adore Him! Verily, it
hath been forbidden unto every believer, whether man or woman. Thus hath the
sun of My commandment shone forth above the horizon of My utterance, that the
handmaidens who believe in Me may be illumined. - Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi
Effendi in a letter dated 25 December 1938; ‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)
