The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
BAHA'U'LLAHThus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.
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Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
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Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.
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Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.
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O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.
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Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
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Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.
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All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
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Regard ye the world as a man’s body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.
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In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
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In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
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Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.
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The True Seeker must, before all else, cleanse his heart.
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man’s life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.
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Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
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Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.
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