Chapter 5

(81) ALASKA--Important (82) ALASKA--Incorporation of L.S.A. and growth (83) ALASKA--Spirit of confidence (84) ALASKA--Unity of believers (85) ANTI-CHRIST (86) CHRIST--RESURRECTION (87) CHRIST--Virgin Birth (88) FEAR--Overcoming fear (89) FOOD-Storage (90) GOD--Nature of our Knowledge (91) IMMORTALITY--Cause of Happiness (92) INVESTMENTS (93) MANIFESTATIONS--Future Manifestations (94) PHOTOGRAPHS--of the Master (95) PRAYER (96) PRE-EXISTENCE--of Prophets (97) JOSEPH SMITH--Statements in Book of Mormon (98) SOUL--Origin (99) STUDY (100) TEACHINGS--Acceleration (101) TEACHING--Importance (102) TEACHING--Participation of Children (103) TEACHING--Remaining at Post (104) TEACHING--Teaching Relatives APPENDIX ADDRESSEES

EXCERPTS FROM TABLETS OF THE DIVINE PLAN

"I desire for you eternal success and prosperity and beg perfect..."

To the Assemblies and Meetings of the believers of God and the maidservants of the Merciful in the United States and Canada.

Upon them be Baha'u'llah El' Abha

He is God!

O ye blessed souls:

I desire for you eternal success and prosperity and beg perfect confirmation for each one in the divine world. My hope for you is that each one may shine forth like unto the morning star from the horizon of the world and in this garden of God become a blessed tree, producing everlasting fruits and results.

Therefore I direct you to that which is conducive to your heavenly confirmation and illumination in the Kingdom of God!

It is this: Alaska is a vast country; although one of the maidservants of the Merciful has hastened to those parts, serving as a librarian in the Public Library, and according to her ability is not failing in teaching the Cause, yet the call of the Kingdom of God is not yet raised through that spacious territory.

His Holiness Christ says: Travel ye to the East and to the West of the world and summon the people to the Kingdom of God. Hence the mercy of God must encompass all humanity. Therefore do ye not think it permissible to leave that region deprived of the breezes of the Morn of Guidance. Consequently, strive as far as ye are able to send to those parts fluent speakers, who are detached from aught else save God, attracted with the fragrances of God, and sanctified and purified from all desires and temptations. Their sustenance and food must consist of the teachings of God. First they must themselves live in accordance with those principles, then guide the people. Perchance, God willing, the lights of the most great guidance may illumine that country and the breezes of the rose garden of the love of God may perfume the nostrils of the inhabitants of Alaska. Should ye become confirmed in thus rendering such a service, rest ye assured that ye shall crown your heads with the diadem of everlasting sovereignty and at the threshold of oneness you will become the favored and accepted servants.

SUPPLICATION

O Thou Incomparable God! O Thou Lord of the Kingdom! These souls are Thy heavenly army. Assist them and with the cohorts of the Supreme Concourse, make them victorious; so that each one of them may become like unto a regiment and conquer these countries through the love of God and the illumination of divine teachings.

O God! Be Thou their supporter and their helper, and in the wilderness, the mountain, the valley, the forests, the prairies and the seas, be Thou their confidant--so that they may cry out through the power of the Kingdom and the breath of the Holy Spirit!

Verily Thou art the Powerful, the Mighty and the Omnipotent and Thou art the Wise, the Hearing, and the Seeing.

--'Abdu'l-Baha (April 8, 1916)