Give ye great weight to the Nineteen Day gatherings, so that
on these occasions the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful
may turn their faces toward the Kingdom, chant the communes, beseech God's
help, become joyfully enamoured each of the other, and grow in purity and
holiness, and in the fear of God, and in resistance to passion and self. Thus
will they separate themselves from this elemental world, and immerse themselves
in the ardours of the spirit.
('Abdu'l-Bahá,
from a Tablet to the local Spiritual Assembly of Spokane, Washington,
translated from the Persian; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Nineteen
Day Feast)
