The sublimity of man is derived from the qualities and
virtues which characterize the angels of the supreme concourse. Therefore when
good qualities and virtuous attributes appear in man, he is verily a heavenly
personage, an angel of the kingdom, a divine reality, a merciful manifestation.
And when he does contend and thirst for blood, he exceeds in ferocity the
basest of brutes, for while the bloodthirsty wolf will devour one sheep in the
night, in that time man will make away with a thousand victims...
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; ‘Star of the West, vol. 6, no. 9, August 20, 1915)
