Connecticut,USA
“The source of all learning is the knowledge of God, exalted be His Glory, and this cannot be attained save through the knowledge of His Divine Manifestation.”
—Bahá’u’lláh, ASL-I-KULLU’L-KHAYR (Words of Wisdom), Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas
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Chicago, USA
“Now praise be to God that Chicago and its environs from the beginning of the diffusion of the fragrances of God have been a strong heart. Therefore, through divine bounty and providence it has become confirmed in certain great matters.”
-‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Tablets of the Divine Plan
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Tea Tree Gully, Australia
“O Lord, my God! Praise and thanksgiving be unto Thee for Thou hast guided me to the highway of the kingdom, suffered me to walk in this straight and far-stretching path, illumined my eye by beholding the splendors of Thy light, inclined my ear to the melodies of the birds of holiness from the kingdom of mysteries and attracted my heart with Thy love among the righteous.”
– Abdu’l‑Bahá, Tablets of the Divine Plan
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Akka, Israel
“Gather…together Thy loved ones beneath the shadow of the Tree of Thy oneness, and of the Manifestation of the effulgent light of Thy unity.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, Prayers and Meditations
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Miami, USA
A tree emerging out of the darkness
“BY the righteousness of God! The Mother Book is made manifest, summoning mankind unto God, the Lord of the worlds, while the seas proclaim: The Most Great Ocean hath appeared, from whose waves one can hear the thundering cry: `Verily, no God is there but Me, the Peerless, the All-Knowing.’ And the trees raising their clamour exclaim: O people of the world! The voice of the Divine Lote-Tree is clearly sounding and the shrill cry of the Pen of Glory is ringing loud: Give ye ear and be not of the heedless. The sun is calling out: O concourse of the divines! The heaven of religions is split and the moon cleft asunder…”
-Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Kalimat-i-Firdawsiyyih (Words of Paradise)
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Haifa, Israel
“Tan potente es la luz de la unidad que puede iluminar toda la tierra.”
-Baha’u’llah