From: Talks of ‘Abdu’l-Baha
14 April 1912
Talk at Union Meeting of Advanced Thought Centers
Carnegie Lyceum
West Fifty-seventh Street, New York
Notes by Mountfort Mills and Howard MacNutt
West Fifty-seventh Street, New York
Notes by Mountfort Mills and Howard MacNutt
I have come from distant lands to visit the meetings and assemblies of this
country. In every meeting I find people gathered, loving each other; therefore,
I am greatly pleased. The bond of union is evidenced in this assembly today,
where the power of God has brought together in faith, agreement and concord
those who are engaged in furthering the development of the human world. It is
my hope that all mankind may become similarly united in the bond and agreement
of love. Unity is the expression of the loving power of God and reflects the
reality of Divinity. It is resplendent in this Day through the bestowals of
light upon humanity.
Throughout the universe the divine power is effulgent in endless images and
pictures. The world of creation, the world of humanity may be likened to the
earth itself and the divine power to the sun. This Sun has shone upon all
mankind. In the endless variety of its reflections the divine Will is
manifested. Consider how all are recipients of the bounty of the same Sun. At
most the difference between them is that of degree, for the effulgence is one
effulgence, the one light emanating from the Sun. This will express the oneness
of the world of humanity. The body politic, or the social unity of the human
world, may be likened to an ocean, and each member, each individual, a wave
upon that same ocean.
