![]() Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man, that assureth the progress of every illumined soul. Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world and the next. Love is the cause of God's revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things. Love is heaven's kindly light, the Holy Spirit's eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul. Know thou of a certainty that Love is the secret of God's holy Dispensation, the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual outpourings. If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls if they injure you, teach them how to be comforted if they inflict a wound upon you, be a balm to their sores if they sting you, hold to their lips a refreshing cup. Let them never be defeated by the malice of the people, by their aggression and their hate, no matter how intense. In every instance let the friends be considerate and infinitely kind. Wherefore must the loved ones of God associate in affectionate fellowship with stranger and friend alike, showing forth to all the utmost loving-kindness, disregarding the degree of their capacity, never asking whether they deserve to be loved. For each of the creatures is a sign of God, and it was by the grace of the Lord and His power that each did step into the world therefore they are not strangers, but in the family not aliens, but friends, and to be treated as such. And in this new and wondrous age, the Holy Writings say that we must be at one with every people that we must see neither harshness nor injustice, neither malevolence, nor hostility, nor hate, but rather turn our eyes toward the heaven of ancient glory. See ye no strangers rather see all men as friends, for love and unity come hard when ye fix your gaze on otherness. The decline of religion is their time of activity they seek the shadows when the world is darkened and clouds have spread over it.Ĭleanse ye your eyes, so that ye behold no man as different from yourselves. When the lights of religion become darkened the materialists appear. They come forth because they are creatures of the night. When the sun sets it is the time for bats to fly. Therefore the realm of the religionist has gradually narrowed and darkened and the sphere of the materialist has widened and advanced for the religionist has held to imitation and counterfeit, neglecting and discarding holiness and the sacred reality of religion. That which was meant to be conducive to life has become the cause of death that which should have been an evidence of knowledge is now a proof of ignorance that which was a factor in the sublimity of human nature has proved to be its degradation. To such an extent has this prevailed that they have taken away the heavenly light of divine truth and sit in the darkness of imitations and imaginations. They follow superstitions inherited from their fathers and ancestors. True religion is the source of love and agreement amongst men, the cause of the development of praiseworthy qualities but the people are holding to the counterfeit and imitation, negligent of the reality which unifies so they are bereft and deprived of the radiance of religion. This darkness is conducive to differences and dissensions rites and dogmas are many and various therefore discord has arisen among the religious systems whereas religion is for the unification of mankind. Superstitions have obscured the fundamental reality, the world is darkened and the light of religion is not apparent. ![]() Alas! that humanity is completely submerged in imitations and unrealities notwithstanding the truth of divine religion has ever remained the same.
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