O ye loved ones of the Lord! This is the hour when ye must
associate with all the earth's peoples in extreme kindliness and love, and be
to them the signs and tokens of God's great mercy. Ye must become the very soul
of the world, the living spirit in the body of the children of men. In this
wondrous Age, at this time when the Ancient Beauty, the Most Great Name,
bearing unnumbered gifts, hath risen above the horizon of the world, the Word
of God hath infused such awesome power into the inmost essence of humankind
that He hath stripped men's human qualities of all effect, and hath, with His
all-conquering might, unified the peoples in a vast sea of oneness.
- ‘Abdu'l-Baha (Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu'l-Baha)
