There are two kinds of cooperation: material and spiritual.
Cooperation in the material world will insure happiness and fellowship, and
will facilitate the progress of humankind; but the ideal, the most real and
virtuous cooperation is spiritual. That is realized when people gather together
to investigate and discuss principles impartially, to talk over the divine and
philosophic principles of the age and to assist each other in pursuit of divine
knowledge and wisdom. This real cooperation and mutual assistance is the
foundation on which the super-structure of material reciprocity is based.
Through this spiritual inter-assistance the prosperity of the world of man is
unveiled.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Words
of ‘Abdu’l-Baha at a Nineteen-Day Feast in London, December 29, 1912; Baha’i
News no. 33, July 1929)
