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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
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Opening
Death as the Birth of the Soul: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the TitanicOn April 23, 1912, days after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, 'Abdu'l-Bahá gathered with the friends at the Parsons home in Washington and offered consolation: death, He said, is not termination but the soul's birth into greater light, as the infant is reluctantly born into the world.
The Promulgation of Universal Peace · 'Abdu'l-Bahá
Middle
Some Answered Questions: The Immortality of the SoulIn *Some Answered Questions*, 'Abdu'l-Bahá addresses Laura Clifford Barney's question on the immortality of the human soul — explaining the soul's continuance after the death of the body and the nature of its progress in the further worlds of God.
Some Answered Questions · 'Abdu'l-Bahá
Closing
When my father fell desperately ill in the winter of 1949-50 his condition was…When my father fell desperately ill in the winter of 1949-50 his condition was despaired of by his doctors. He reached a point where he seemed to have no conscious mind left, could not recognize me, his only and idolized child, at all, and…
bahaistories.com archive · Various
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