The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind ….. Therefore it is our duty to put forth our greatest efforts and summon all our energies in order that the bonds of unity and accord may be established among mankind…… God has created us all human and all countries of the world are parts of the same globe. We are all his servants…… All the divine Manifestations have proclaimed the oneness of God and the unity of mankind…… The fundamental truth of the Manifestations is peace. This underlies all religion, all justice. The divine purpose is that men should live in unity, concord and agreement and should love one another. Consider the virtues of the human world and realize that the oneness of humanity is the primary foundation of them all. ~ ‘Abdu’l-Baha
POEM
All men are equal in their birth, heirs of the earth and skies;
All men are equal when that earth fades from their dying eyes.
All wait alike on Him Whose power upholds the life He gives;
The sage within his starlit tower, the savage in his cave.
God meets the throngs that pay their vows in courts their hands have made;
And hears the worshipper who bows beneath the plantain shade.
‘Tis man alone who difference sees, and speaks of high and low,
And worships those and tramples these, while the same path they go.
Oh, let man hasten to restore to all their rights of love:
In power and wealth exult no more, in wisdom lowly move.
Ye great! Renounce your earthborn pride; ye low, your shame and fear:
Live as you worship side by side, your brotherhood revere.
~ Harriet Martineau
PRAYER
We know that in all creation
Only the human family
Has strayed from the Sacred Way.
We know that we are the ones who are divided
And we are the ones who must come back together
To walk in the Sacred Way.
Great Father,
Sacred One,
Teach us love, compassion and honour,
That we may heal the earth and heal each other.
~ Native American Tradition
And it shall come to pass in the end of days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it..
And many peoples shall go and say: Come ye, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths…….
And He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
~ Isaiah 2.2-4