Eternal Love And Unity Of All Humankind

At the deepest level, there is but one religion. Science and faith together constitute the dual knowledge system that propels the evolution of civilisation. Each is an “effulgence of the Sun of Truth”. Successive dispensations of a loving and purposeful Creator have brought the earth’s inhabitants to the threshold of their collective coming-of-age as a single people. The oneness and unity of humanity is of foremost importance. That which the Lord hath ordained as the sovereign remedy and mightiest instrument for the healing of all the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith. Know the reality of eternal love. There are four kinds of love. The first is the love that flows from God to man: it consists of the inexhaustible graces, the Divine effulgence and heavenly illumination. Through this love the world of being receives life. Through this love man is endowed with physical existence, until, through the breath of the Holy Spirit - this same love - he receives eternal life and becomes the image of the Living God. This love is the origin of all love in the world of creation. The second is the love that flows from man to God. This is faith, attraction to the Divine, enkindlement, progress, entrance into the Kingdom of God, receiving the Bounties of God, illumination with the lights of the Kingdom. This love is the origin of all philanthropy; this love causes the hearts of men to reflect the rays of the Sun of Reality. The third is the love of God towards the Self or Identity of God. This is the transfiguration of His Beauty, the reflection of Himself in the mirror of His Creation. This is the reality of love, or ancient love; in other words, eternal love. Through one ray of this love all other love exists. The fourth is the love of man for man. The love which exists between the hearts of believers is prompted by the ideal of the unity of spirits. This love is attained through the knowledge of God, so that men see the Divine Love reflected in the heart. Each sees in the other the beauty of God reflected in the soul, and finding this point of similarity, they are attracted to one another in love. This love will make all men the waves of one sea, this love will make them all the stars of one heaven and the fruits of one tree. This love will bring the realisation of true accord, the foundation of real unity. Love that is subject to transmutation is not eternal love; this is merely fascination. It is subject to change. Today, you will see two souls apparently in close friendship; tomorrow all this may be changed. Yesterday, they were ready to die for one another, today they shun one another’s society. This is not love; it is yielding of hearts to the accidents of life. When that which has caused this “love” to exist passes, the love passes also; this is not in reality love. All love originate from God. These rays are from the Sun of Reality; these are the Breathings of the Holy Spirits; these are the Signs of the Reality. “This is the Day whereon the Ocean of God’s mercy hath been manifested unto men, the Day in which the Day Star of His loving-kindness hath shed its radiance upon them, the Day in which the clouds of His bountiful favour have overshadowed the whole of mankind. Now is the time to cheer and refresh the down-cast through the invigorating breeze of love and fellowship, and the living waters of friendliness and charity”. (Today is the anniversary of the Birth of the Bab, the Prophet-Herald of the Baha’i Faith.)