Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not.
ABDU'L-BAHAWhilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
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Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.
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Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven.
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Be ye doctor and nurse to the ailing; promote ye friendship, and honour, and conciliation, and devotion to God, in this world of non-existence.
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Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful.
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Be ye a refuge to the fearful; bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed; make ye a provision for the destitute; be a treasury of riches for the poor; be a healing medicine for those who suffer pain
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Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.
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The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies
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Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.
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Bahá’í marriage is union and cordial affection between the two parties. They must, however, exercise the utmost care and become acquainted with each other’s character.
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Is the people’s lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.
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The supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms
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The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion.
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So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.
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Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals
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God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?
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Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder
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To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
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If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.
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Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end.
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Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
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In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love
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War shall cease between nations, and by the will of God the Most Great Peace shall come; the world will be seen as a new world, and all men will live as brothers.
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His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.
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If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.
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The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust,
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By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.
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