God is in peace with all His children, why should we be
engaged in war? God is kind to everyone, why should we oppress each other? The
foundation of divine religion is Love, Affinity and Concord. Praise God that
this cycle is the period of illumination! Minds have made great progress;
intelligences have been unfolded; the means of unity and agreement are being
brought about and communication between the races of men is rapidly being
established. Now is the time that all of us may embrace the law of peace and
treat each other with honesty and straightforwardness. Let the religious
prejudices be wiped away. Let the law of racial supremacy be discountenanced.
Let political expediencies be done away with. Let the love of country be
superceded by the love of the world. Let us all deal with each other with
infinite kindness. We are all the servants at the one Divine Threshold.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, November 24, 1911, Paris, France; Star of the West,
vol. 2, no. 18, February 7, 1912)
