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As to the souls who are born into this world radiant entities and who through excessive difficulty are deprived of great benefits and thus leave the world-- they are worthy of all sympathy, for in reality this is worthy of regret. It is for this purpose (that is, it is with regard to this wisdom ) that the great Manifestations (of God) unveil themselves in this world, bear every difficulty and ordeal-- to make these ready souls dawnings of light and confer upon them eternal life. This is the real atonement that His Holiness Christ made-- He sacrificed Himself for the life of the world. (543:1) As to the question that the holy and spiritual souls influence, help and guide the creatures after they have cast off this elemental mould-- this is an established truth of the Bahais. Nay even the Holy Manifestations of God extend a great Bounty and an evident Light after their ascent from this world. For His Holiness Christ there was more and greater promotion of the Word, manifestation of divine power, conversion of holy souls, and the giving of eternal life, after [His] martyrdom. Likewise for the Blessed Beauty (BAHA'O'LLAH) there was greater bounty and dawning of light, manifestation of divine power, and effectiveness of the Word after His Ascent; and ere long the Sun of His Reality will encircle the world with its motion, heat, radiation and bounty. (543:2) Be not sorry on account of the limited extent of the progress of the Bahai Cause in that country. This is the beginning of the dawn. Consider the Cause of His Holiness Christ, which took three-hundred years to produce great effect. Now sixty years have not passed since the beginning of this Cause, and Its Lights are shed upon all horizons.
(543:3)
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