…you must have no excuse but live according to the Divine
Teachings, whether humanity prove agreeable or disagreeable, whether humanity
prove hateful or loving, whether it receives you or casts you out, so that
perchance you may be assisted in hoisting the standard of peace and pitching
the Tabernacle of Oneness and solidarity of the world of humanity -- so that
this temporal life may ultimate in the Life Everlasting, and this darkness of
ignorance which has pervaded the whole world may be converted into the illumination
of guidance. So that material man may become celestial, and the earthly souls
become the heavenly souls; that the blind may become perceptive, the deaf
attentive, the ignorant wise, the dead arise, so that, in fact, the Kingdom of
God in the world of humanity may pitch its Canopy and its Tabernacle in the
utmost glory.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; Star of the West, vol. 5. No. 9,
August 20, 1914)
