XXXIV: ALL PRAISE AND GLORY BE TO GOD WHO,...


All praise and glory be to God Who, through the power of His might, hath
delivered His creation from the nakedness of non-existence, and clothed it
with the mantle of life. From among all created things He hath singled out
for His special favor the pure, the gem-like reality of man, and invested
it with a unique capacity of knowing Him and of reflecting the greatness
of His glory. This twofold distinction conferred upon him hath cleansed
away from his heart the rust of every vain desire, and made him worthy of
the vesture with which his Creator hath deigned to clothe him. It hath
served to rescue his soul from the wretchedness of ignorance.

This robe with which the body and soul of man hath been adorned is the
very foundation of his well-being and development. Oh, how blessed the day
when, aided by the grace and might of the one true God, man will have
freed himself from the bondage and corruption of the world and all that is
therein, and will have attained unto true and abiding rest beneath the
shadow of the Tree of Knowledge!

The songs which the bird of thine heart had uttered in its great love for
its friends have reached their ears, and moved Me to answer thy questions,
and reveal to thee such secrets as I am allowed to unfold. In thine
esteemed letter thou hadst inquired which of the Prophets of God should be
regarded as superior to others. Know thou assuredly that the essence of
all the Prophets of God is one and the same. Their unity is absolute. God,