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Before the internet the telephone was the only way to instantaneously communicate. In rural areas especially, multiple parties shared a common line. Known as party lines, one could not make a call if someone else was using the line, but you could listen in on their conversation. In this remarkable tablet, translated from the Arabic by Shoghi Effendi, we have our own "party line" to listen in on a conversation God is having with Bahá'u'lláh. God addresses Bahá'u'lláh as the "Most Exalted Pen" for He is the Pen, the very instrument, by which Divine Revelation appears as the written Word of God. We overhear both sides of the dialogue as God lovingly but insistently draws Bahá'u'lláh away from all that binds Him to the created world. As Bahá'u'lláh is gradually made aware of the full import of His station as a Manifestation of God, so also, are we. .