In all the world of creation all the existent beings are in
the utmost connection. Through this connection, mutual helpfulness and
co-operation is realized. This mutual helpfulness and co-operation is the
origin of the conservation of the forces of life. If for one instant this
mutual helpfulness and co-operation were cut off from the sources and realities
of things, all the existent beings and things would be thrown into confusion
and chaos and be reduced to nothingness and annihilation. For instance, from
the breath of the animals a watery element, called hydrogen, and carbon is
exhaled and this is the life principle of the vegetable kingdom. From the
vegetable kingdom and the trees, a fiery element, called oxygen, is emitted and
this becomes the cause of the maintenance of the life of the animal kingdom. In
such a manner, mutual helpfulness and co-operation is realized continually
between all the existent beings.
Likewise, the greatest inter-relation and communication
exists between the sons of men without which peace, life and existence is
entirely impossible. For a soul independent of all the other soul and without
receiving assistance from other sources cannot live for the twinkling of an
eye: nay, rather, he will become non-existent and reduced to nothingness:
especially among the believers of God between whom material and spiritual
communication is developed up to the highest point of perfection. It is this
real communication, the essential necessity and requirement of which is the
mutual helpfulness, co-operation and confirmation. Without the complete
establishment of this divine principle in the hearts of the friends of God,
nothing can be accomplished, for they are the hyacinths of one garden, the
waves of one sea, the stars of one heaven and the rays of one sun. From every
standpoint the essential unity, the luminous unity, the religious unity and the
material unity are founded and organized between them. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, Star of
the West, vol. 6, no. 17, January 19, 1916)
