Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas

by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

This Tablet bore the following heading: “Chant thou this commune.”

This metaphor means the state of spontaneous prayer and communion with God.

To the Buffalo (N.Y.) assembly.

To the Buffalo assembly.

To the Hoboken (N.J.) assembly.

The following four Tablets are addressed to a Japanese residing in the United States.

Hyacinth—the flower symbolic of knowledge.

Comparing those near at hand who disobeyed the command of Baha’o’llah, with the recipient of this Tablet—a Japanese.

Infinite in regard to imagination, for without the mind there would be no imagination. Another translation of this paragraph is as follows: “All the people have formed a god in the world of thought and they worship that form of their own imagination, while the fact is that the imagined concept is comprehended by the mind which is comprehensive. Surely that which comprehends is greater than the comprehended, for imagination is accidental (non-essential), while the mind is essential. Surely the essential is greater than the accidental.”

Addressed to a Japanese residing in the United States—a friend of the recipient of the four preceding Tablets.