This is the truth and there is naught beyond the truth save error. Know thou assuredly that—
Love is the mystery of divine revelations!
Love is the effulgent manifestation!
Love is the spiritual fulfillment!
Love is the breath of the Holy Spirit inspired into the
human spirit!
Love is the cause of the manifestation of the Truth (God) in
the phenomenal world!
Love is the necessary tie proceeding from the realities of
things through divine creation!
Love is the means of the most great happiness in both the
material and spiritual worlds!
Love is a light of guidance in the dark night!
Love is the bond between the Creator and the creature in the
inner world!
Love is the cause of development to every enlightened man!
Love is the greatest law in this vast universe of God!
Love is the one law which causeth and controleth order among
the existing atoms!
Love is the universal magnetic power between the planets and
stars shining in the loft firmament!
Love is the cause of unfoldment to a searching mind, of the
secrets deposited in the universe by the Infinite!
Love is the spirit of life in the bountiful body of the
world!
Love is the cause of the civilization of nations in this
mortal world!
Love is the highest honor to every righteous nation!
The people who are confirmed therein are indeed glorified by the Supreme Concourse, the angels of heaven and the dwellers of the Kingdom of Abha! But if the hearts of the people become devoid of the Divine Grace—the Love of God—they wander in the desert of ignorance, descend to the depths of ruin and fall to the abyss of despair where there is no refuge! They are like insects living in the lowest plane.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha ('Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 3')
