Friday, February 15, 2008

"O people of Justice! " — "Let your vision be world-embracing..."


It's been said we need Peace before the World can be healed.

It's been said we need Unity before Peace is possible.

A lot has been said about our World's Plight but not enough has yet been done. . .

Today's Excerpts:

Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self....

It is incumbent upon every man, in this Day, to hold fast unto whatsoever will promote the interests, and exalt the station, of all nations and just governments....

We have erewhile declared—and Our Word is the truth—: "Consort with the followers of all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship."....

O people of Justice! Be as brilliant as the light, and as splendid as the fire that blazed in the Burning Bush. The brightness of the fire of your love will no doubt fuse and unify the contending peoples and kindreds of the earth, whilst the fierceness of the flame of enmity and hatred cannot but result in strife and ruin. We beseech God that He may shield His creatures from the evil designs of His enemies. He verily hath power over all things....

Time and again have We admonished Our beloved ones to avoid, nay to flee from, anything whatsoever from which the odor of mischief can be detected. The world is in great turmoil, and the minds of its people are in a state of utter confusion. We entreat the Almighty that He may graciously illuminate them with the glory of His Justice, and enable them to discover that which will be profitable unto them at all times and under all conditions. He, verily is the All-Possessing, the Most High.

Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 94-98