A new version of the Bahá’í Reference Library is now available. This ‘old version’ of the Bahá’í Reference Library will be replaced at a later date.
The new version of the Bahá’i Reference Library can be accessed here »
INTER-ASSEMBLY UNION |
The Spiritual Meeting of men and the Spiritual Meeting of
women in Chicago are indeed endeavoring to serve. If they unite,
as they should, they will produce great results. Especially, if the
Spiritual Meetings of Chicago unite with those of New York and
become bound together, in a short while the fragrance of the divine
garden, which giveth life, will perfume all regions.
|
The Spiritual Meeting of Consultation of New York must be
in the utmost union and harmony with the Spiritual Meeting of
Consultation of Chicago, and that which they deem advisable to
publish, these two Meetings of Consultation must unitedly approve
of it and deem its publication advisable. Then the Meeting of
Consultation must send one copy thereof to ‘Akká, in order that
it may be also approved of here and then returned, and that then it
may be printed and published.
|
To be brief, it hath been decided by the desire of God that union
and harmony may day by day increase among the friends of God
and the maid-servants of the Merciful One, in the West. Not until
this is realized will the affairs advance by any means whatever!
And the greatest means for the union and harmony of all is
Spiritual Meetings. This matter is very important and is as a
magnet for divine confirmation. If the beauty of this Divine
Beloved One—that is, unity of believers—does appear in the
ornament of the Kingdom of Abhá, it is certain that those countries
will, in a short time, become the Paradise of Abhá and the
light of unity and singleness will shine upon the whole world
414
from the West. We are endeavoring with all heart and soul, have
no rest night and day, nor a moment of tranquillity, so that we
may make the world of humanity the mirror of the divine unity;
how much more the beloved of God! And this wish and hope shall
appear and shine forth at that time when the true friends of God
may arise and act in accord with the teachings of the Beauty of
Abhá—may my life be a sacrifice to His beloved ones! One of the
teachings is that love and faithfulness must so prevail in the hearts
that men may see the stranger as a friend, the sinner as an intimate
fellow, may count enemies as allies, regard foes as loving comrades,
call their executioner the giver of life, consider the denier as a
believer and the unbeliever as a faithful one—that is, men must
behave in such a manner as may befit the believers, the faithful, the
friend and the confidant. If this lamp may shine in a befitting
manner in the assemblage of the world you will find that the
regions will become fragrant and the world become a delectable
paradise, the surface of the earth will become an excellent garden,
the world will become as one home, the different nations will
become as one kind, and the peoples and nationalities of the East
and West will become as one household. I hope such a day may
come and such lights may dawn and such a Countenance may
appear in the utmost beauty.
|