"The Bab ,the Primal Point of a new creation,brought humanity into a new division of time in acalendar of nineteen months.All through the past history the months of the year and the days of the week have borne the NAMES of pagan feasts and Roman holidays. The Bab swept these ancient landmarks away and replaced them with the Qualities of:Splendor,Glory,Beauty,Grandeur,Light,Mercy,Words,Perfection,Names,Might,Will,Knowledge,Power,Speech,Questions,Honor,Sovereignty,Dominion,and Loftiness. Meditating upon these sublime attributes,man is able to gaze beyond the curve of time,where in the swing and change of planetary movement exists, to the eternal qualities that stabilize the soul.As the seasons return with their quarternary beauty,as the seed sacrifices to the mystery of the harvest ,we see reflected in the mirror of the spiritualworld the spiritual springtime when the Word of God is planted in the heart of man by the coming of God's Messengers.
"The cycle of the year ends with a period of nineteen days of fasting to prepare for the coming of Naw-Ruz, the New Year, when both the physical and the spiritual beauty blend and we advance to another year in which to mature the soul and prepare for the everlasting kingdom.
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