Compiled from Ismael Velasco’s rendering of Dreyfus’s translation into French in L’oeuvre de Bahaou’llah [Works of Bahá’u’lláh] and Shoghi Effendi’s translation in The Promised Day Is Come. First posted to the H-Bahá’í listserve 02/98 by Velasco; revised and posted to Tarjuman 12/01; published here with the permission of the translator.