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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."
23 stories on this theme.
November 3rd Paris is becoming very cold, so cold that I shall soon be obliged to go away, but the warmth of your love still keeps me here.
15 Rue Greuze, Paris, November 10th ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said: Tonight I will speak of the evolution or progress of the spirit.
‘Does the soul progress more through sorrow or through the joy in this world?’
About a week after the Titanic sank, 'Abdu'l-Bahá spoke of the disaster at the Parsons home in Washington, likening the soul's passage through death to an infant's birth into the wider world.
Know that, speaking generally, there are five divisions of the spirit.
Know that the Holy Manifestations, though They have the degrees of endless perfections, yet, speaking generally, have only three stations.
Question.—In the Bible it is said that God breathed the spirit into the body of man.
Question.—Of what degree is the perception of the human world, and what are its limitations?
Having shown that the spirit of man exists, we must prove its immortality.
Yesterday we were occupied in discussing the immortality of the spirit.
Question.—After the body is put aside and the spirit has obtained freedom, in what way will the rational soul exist?
You question about eternal life and the entrance into the Kingdom.
In a series of chapters of *Some Answered Questions*, 'Abdu'l-Bahá offers rational proofs that the human spirit survives the death of the body, and teaches that, because the perfections of humanity are endless, the soul can continue to progress after leaving this world.
Question.—Some people believe that they achieve spiritual discoveries—that is to say, that they converse with spirits.
Know that there are two kinds of torment: subtile and gross.
Question.—What is the truth of the question of reincarnation, which is believed by some people?
As this physical frame is the throne of the inner temple, whatever occurs to the former is felt by the latter.
O thou who hast eyes to see! That which thou didst witness is the very truth, and it pertaineth to the realm of vision.
O thou who seekest the Kingdom of heaven! This world is even as the body of man, and the Kingdom of God is as the spirit of life.
Those souls that, in this day, enter the divine kingdom and attain everlasting life, although materially dwelling on earth, yet in reality soar in the realm of heaven.
O thou who art rejoiced at the explanation of the maid-servant of God .........!
O thou who art rejoiced by the Divine Glad-tidings! Verily I have received thy last letter and thanked God that thou didst reach Paris protected and guarded (by Him).
When Sutherland Maxwell lay near death in the winter of 1949–50, Shoghi Effendi insisted he should not die and had him taken to Switzerland, where he recovered so completely that the Guardian called it miraculous.