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142 of God, after severance from all else, will become so attached to that city that they will not abandon it for an instant. They will hear conclusive proofs from the hyacinth of that assembly and will receive clear arguments from the beauty of the rose and the melody of the nightingale. This city is renewed and adorned every one thousand years, more or less. Therefore O my friend, we must make an effort to attain to that city and remove the veils of glory, through Divine favors and Lordly compassion, so that we may sacrifice the withered soul in the path of the New Beloved, and show forth a hundred thousand supplications and humiliations in order to be favored with that attainment. This city is none other than the " Divine Book " in every age. For instance, in the age of Moses it was the Pentateuch; in the time of Jesus, the Gospel; in the day of Mohammed the Messenger of God, the Koran; in this age, the Beyan; and in the Day of " Him whom God shall send forth," His Book, which is the return of all the Books and their guardian. In these cities, sustenance is provided and eternal blessings are appointed. They bestow spiritual food and provide pre-existent benefit. They confer the wealth of Unity upon the people of abstraction, bestow a portion upon the portionless, and favor the wanderers in the desert of ignorance with the cup of Knowledge. In these cities are treasured and deposited the guidance, favor, knowledge, understanding, faith and assurance of all in the heavens and earth.