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This video shares a quotation from Abdu’l-Baha about the jewels of the spirit.
When the news spread of the discovery of gold in Californian streams, tens of thousands left farms, factories and homes in a mad rush and many died in the process. When discussing this with Abdu’l-Baha, Star of the West (Vol X, No 10) recorded Him saying:
“Consider how men, in order to gain wealth and honor, threw themselves in the midst of all kinds of danger! How cheerfully they accepted all these extraordinary hardships, left homes and factories and traveled thousands of miles through deserts and over mountains, in order to reach the gold mines! But now in this day the mines of the Kingdom of Abha are being discovered, and the precious jewels of the spirit are exposed. These mines are inexhaustible.
The more they dig the greater will be the output of the ideal precious gems, silver, gold and diamonds. The believers […] must realize how their forefathers, in order to obtain gold, underwent the most incredible adversities, exposed their lives to danger and accepted all the difficulties with a firm resolution. The friends also, in order to guide the souls, to promote the Word of God, to discover the unseen treasures of the Kingdom, and to prospect the invisible mines of the Realm of Might, must be willing to undergo any difficulty, so that they may achieve greater results and enrich the world with the boundless wealth of Truth.”
Many thanks to Alice Gomez for reading this for us.
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