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Queen Marie's acknowledgment of the Divine Message stands as the first fruits of the vision which Baha'u'llah had seen long before in His captivity, and had announced in His Kitab- i- Aqdas. "How great," He wrote, "the blessedness that awaits the King who will arise to aid My Cause in My Kingdom, who will detach himself from all else but Me!... All must glorify his name, must reverence his station, and aid him to unlock the cities with the keys of My Name, the Omnipotent Protector of all that inhabit the visible and invisible kingdoms. Such a king is the very eye of mankind, the luminous ornament on the brow of creation, the fountain- head of blessings unto the whole world. Offer up, O people of Baha, your substance, nay your very lives for his assistance."
(395:2)
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