The Master Comforts the Infant Shoghi Effendi
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Shoghi Effendi was sometimes subject to vivid and significant dreams, both pleasant and unpleasant. It is reported that in his babyhood he woke one night crying and the Master told his nurse to bring Shoghi Effendi to Him so that He could comfort him; the Master said to His sister, the Greatest Holy Leaf, "See, already he has dreams!"
(Rúḥíyyih Khánum, 'The Priceless Pearl', p. 10)
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