Know of a truth that your subjects are God’s trust amongst you.  Watch ye, therefore, over them as ye watch over your own selves.  Beware that ye allow not wolves to become the shepherds of the fold, or pride and conceit to deter you from turning unto the poor and the desolate.  Arise thou, in My name, above the horizon of renunciation, and set, then, thy face towards the Kingdom, at the bidding of thy Lord, the Lord of strength and of might.

Adorn the body of Thy kingdom with the raiment of My name, and arise, then, to teach My Cause.  Better is this for thee than that which thou possessest.  God will, thereby, exalt thy name among all the kings.  Potent is He over all things.  Walk thou amongst men in the name of God, and by the power of His might, that thou mayest show forth His signs amidst the peoples of the earth....

Regard ye the world as a man’s body, which is afflicted with divers ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all of its component elements.  Gather ye around that which We have prescribed unto you, and walk not in the ways of such as create dissension.  Meditate on the world and the state of its people.  He, for Whose sake the world was called into being, hath been imprisoned in the most desolate of cities (Akka), by reason of that which the hands of the wayward have wrought.  From the horizon of His prison-city He summoneth mankind unto the Dayspring of God, the Exalted, the Great.  Exultest thou over the treasures thou dost possess, knowing they shall perish?  Rejoicest thou in that thou rulest a span of earth, when the whole world, in the estimation of the people of Baha, is worth as much as the black in the eye of a dead ant?  Abandon it unto such as have set their affections upon it, and turn thou unto Him Who is the Desire of the world.  Whither are gone the proud and their palaces?  Gaze thou into their tombs, that thou mayest profit by this example, inasmuch as We made it a lesson unto every beholder.  Were the breezes of Revelation to seize thee, thou wouldst flee the world, and turn unto the Kingdom, and wouldst expend all thou possessest, that thou mayest draw nigh unto this sublime Vision.

CZAR ALEXANDER II

O Czar of Russia!  Incline thine ear unto the voice of God, the King, the Holy, and turn thou unto Paradise, the Spot wherein abideth He Who, among the Concourse on high, beareth the most excellent titles, and Who, in the kingdom of creation, is called by the name of God, the Effulgent, the All-Glorious.  Beware lest thy desire deter thee from turning towards the face of thy Lord, the Compassionate, the Most Merciful.  We, verily, have heard the thing for which thou didst supplicate thy Lord, whilst secretly communing with Him.  Wherefore, the breeze of My loving-kindness wafted forth, and the sea of My mercy surged, and We answered thee in truth.  Thy Lord, verily, is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.  Whilst