(32) merciful to each other." The Prophet once asked God and said. "O Lord, who are Thy lovers?" and the answer came, "Those who cleave to Me as a child to its mother, take refuge in the remembrance of Me as a bird seeks the shelter of its nest, and are as angry at the sight of sin as an angry lion who fears nothing."

(340) If you take on the guardianship of orphans, you will be the father of many children (and) you will be beloved of God.

(16) And, in the meantime, rest calm and serene--you are safe and protected by the Infinite Power of the FATHER-MOTHER MIND. "Within the Father-Mother Mind, mortal children are at home." --The Kybalion. "There is not one who is Fatherless, nor Motherless in the Universe." --The Kybalion.

(1) And they will all be called children of the living God, and every angel and every spirit will know, yea, they will know that these are My children, and that I am their Father in uprightness and righteousness, and that I love them.

(22) Fear not, my son Jacob, And be not dismayed, son of Abraham : May the Most High God preserve thee from destruction, And from all the paths of error may He deliver thee.

(32) For Christ said also, Let little Children come to me, for to such belongs the Kingdom of God. Say not, What does Baptism avail a Child, which understands it not? The Matter lies not in our Understanding, we are altogether ignorant concerning the Kingdom of God. If the Child be a Bud, grown in thy Tree, and that thou standest in the Covenant, why bringest thou not also thy Bud 1 into the Covenant? Thy Faith is its Faith, and thy Confidence towards God in the Covenant is its Confidence. It is indeed thy Essences, and generated from thy Soul. And thou art to know, according to its exceeding Worth, if thou art a true Christian, in the Covenant of Jesus Christ, that thy Child also (in the Kindling of its Life) passes into the Covenant of Christ, and though it should die in the Mother's Womb, it would be found in the Covenant of Christ. For the Deity stands in the Center of the Light of Life; and so now if the Tree stands in the Covenant, then the Branch may well do so.

(9) (Aye, when shall faith be changed to sight ); and when shall I in verity discern if Ye indeed have power over aught, O Lord! and through Thy Righteous Order (guarding here on earth), O Thou within whose (power lie) my griefs and doubts? Let then Thy saving prophet find and gain aright (for) my delight Thy Good Mind's wonder-working grace ; yea, let Thy Saoshyant see how gifts of recompense may be his own.

(23) And, afterwards, Aûharmazd took tenderness for offspring away from them, so that one may nourish a child, and the child may remain.

(3) Hereto I adjoin a parable. There were a certain man and wife; the woman by accident lost an eye, and was sorely troubled thereat. Her husband then said to her, "Wife, why are you troubled? "She answered, "It is not the loss of my eye that troubles me, but the thought that you may love me less on account of that loss." He said, "I love you all the same." Not long after he put one of his own eyes out, and came to his wife and said, "Wife, that you may believe I love you, I have made myself like you: I, too, now, have only one eye." So men could hardly believe that God loved them till God put one of His eyes out, that is took upon Himself human nature, and was made man.

Just as fire infuses its essence and clearness into the dry wood, so has God done with man. He has created the human soul and infused His glory into it, and yet in His own essence has remained unchangeable. If you ask me whether, seeing that my spiritual birth is out of time, whether I am an eternal son, I answer "Yes," and "No." In the everlasting foreknowledge of God, I slumbered like a word unspoken. He hath brought me forth His son in the image of His eternal fatherhood, that I also should be a father and bring forth Him. It is as if one stood before a high mountain, and cried, "Art thou there?" The echo comes back, "Art thou there?" If one cries, "Come out." the echo answers, "Come out."

(17) (And not alone amidst our princes hath sanctity been marked), Frashaostra, the Hvôgva, hath presented a blest and an endeared form (his child ); and may Ahura Mazda, who has the Sovereign Power, grant her (to us), who is so much to be beloved. And for the (progress of the) good Religion do ye, O ye people! receive her with desire , and for the gaining of Asha; (she will help the great cause).