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you wrote in your burning ... 55: Although the ascension of the beloved ... 56: You have offered up thanks to the Lord for ... 57: The Ancient Beauty, the Most Great Name, ... 58: After the construction of the Báb's Shrine ... 59: At the Threshold of the Lord of Mercy we ... 60: The adherents of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh ... 61: Regarding the Centre of Sedition and his ... 62: Your letter has come, and I myself and the ... 63: The sad news about the death of your ... 64: The letter you have written was received ... 65: All praise be unto the Court of Holiness, ... 66: It has been demonstrated time and time ... 67: The cheque for the amount of two hundred ... 68: It is clear and evident that the body of ... 69: We beseech God--exalted be His glory--to ... 70: Your letter of 12th October 1922 is just ... 71: All praise to the beloved Abhá Beauty, ... 72: Your kind and loving letter written with an ... 73: Praise be to God that through the gracious ... 74: Your letter was received and its contents ... 75: It was sometime ago that I received your ... 76: You quite well realize, I presume, that ... 77: The Pen of the divine Ordainer has so ... 78: 'O God, My God! Thou hast lighted the lamp of ... 79: The tongue of this lowly and grief-stricken ... 80: The question of Avárih has surely come to ... 81: Praise be to God that through His gracious ... 82: It is a very long time since we have had any ... 83: Your short and loving note of June 25th has ... 84: Your charming letter of June 20th has ... 85: Your numerous letters written to the ... 86: From this hallowed Spot I send heavenly ... 87: In this Day nothing is so important as service. ... 88: It always cheers my heart to hear from the ... 89: My heart is always cheered when I meet or ... 90: At the holy Threshold of the Abhá Beauty ... 91: O dear sisters, ardent lovers of Bahá'u'lláh, ... 92: Your letter, laden with many a graceful ...

[DEDICATORY PASSAGE]
(1) He is the Eternal! This is My testimony for her who hath heard My voice and drawn nigh unto Me. Verily, she is a leaf that hath sprung from this preexistent Root. She hath revealed herself in My name and tasted of the sweet savours of My holy, My wondrous pleasure. At one time We gave her to drink from My honeyed Mouth, at another caused her to partake of My mighty, My luminous Kawthar. Upon her rest the glory of My name and the fragrance of My shining robe.
(Bahá'u'lláh's original Arabic of the above is inscribed around the circular dome of the Greatest Holy Leaf's monument on Mount Carmel. See illustration between pages 92 and 93.)

I: FROM THE WRITINGS OF BAHá'U'LLáH

1: Let these exalted words be thy love-song on ...
(2) Let these exalted words be thy love-song on the tree of Bahá, O thou most holy and resplendent Leaf: 'God, besides Whom is none other God, the Lord of this world and the next!' Verily, We have elevated thee to the rank of one of the most distinguished among thy sex, and granted thee, in My court, a station such as none other woman hath surpassed. Thus have We preferred thee and raised thee above the rest, as a sign of grace from Him Who is the Lord of the throne on high and earth below. We have created thine eyes to behold the light of My countenance, thine ears to hearken unto the melody of My words, thy body to pay homage before My throne. Do thou render thanks unto God, thy Lord, the Lord of all the world.
How high is the testimony of the Sadratu'l-Muntahá for its leaf; how exalted the witness of the Tree of Life unto its fruit! Through My remembrance of her a fragrance laden with the perfume of musk hath been diffused; well is it with him that hath inhaled it and exclaimed: 'All praise be to Thee, O God, my Lord the most glorious!' How sweet thy presence before Me; how sweet to gaze upon thy face, to bestow upon thee My loving-kindness, to favour thee with My tender care, to make mention of thee in this, My Tablet--a Tablet which I have ordained as a token of My hidden and manifest grace unto thee.

2: O My Leaf! Hearken thou unto My Voice: ...
(3) O My Leaf! Hearken thou unto My Voice: Verily there is none other God but Me, the Almighty, the All-Wise. I can well inhale from thee the fragrance