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Unexpected New Powers?
"The wisdom of repeating the Greatest Name 9 times before each prayer, and 95 times daily, is as follows: "Abdu'l-Baha said that there is in man a power of concentration not yet fully developed, which power, rightly directed, can lead him to great heights of knowledge, understanding and illumination. Prayer and supplication are the ladders, He said, "...by which the soul ascends, and as the power of sustained communion with God develops the capacity to receive the influx of The Holy Spirit, and to penetrate, the hidden mystery unfolds..." Prayer and communion are the only direct approach of the soul to God, and Baha'u'llah has likened them unto a "river of milk" which is the perfect nutrient, and the more we partake of this lifegiving food, the more the soul shall advance in the path of God, and the greater will be its progress."
--Mirza Abu'l-Fadl, repeating the words of 'Abdu'l-Baha, from an essay by May Maxwell
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