“It behoveth man to adhere tenaciously unto that which will promote fellowship, kindliness and unity.” (Tablets of Baha’u’llah, p. 90)
What would otherwise be there any meaning and truth in professing to believe in God，and where would a perceptive mind and fair conscience and vision find a merit and view a benefit of adhering to any practices in the name of Faith?
“The purpose of the one true God, exalted be His glory, in revealing Himself unto men is to lay bare those gems that lie hidden within the mine of their true and inmost selves. That the divers communions of the earth, and the manifold systems of religious belief, should never be allowed to foster the feelings of animosity among men, is, in this Day, of the essence of the Faith of God and His Religion. These principles and laws, these firmly-established and mighty systems, have proceeded from one Source, and are the rays of one Light. That they differ one from another is to be attributed to the varying requirements of the ages in which they were promulgated.”
(Gleanings from the Writings Baha’u’llah, p. 287)
The revealed Words and the holy Text is the “Divine Elixir” which alone can transmute the crude metal of human nature into pure gold, and will with its nurturing power transform and unfold the potential latent in his and her being to manifest a capacity and perfection worthy of human nobility and the brilliant heights destined for its advancement.
"When divers shades of thought, temperament and character, are brought together under the power and influence of one central agency, the beauty and glory of human perfection will be revealed and made manifest. Naught but the celestial potency of the Word of God, which ruleth and transcendeth the realities of all things, is capable of harmonizing the divergent thoughts, sentiments, ideas and convictions of the children of men."
(Shoghi Effendi, “The World Order of Baha’u’llah”, p. 42)
“O Son of Spirit! Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.” (Revealed by Baha’u’llah, “Hidden Words”
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