'Abdu'l-Bahá on Love
Know thou of a certainty that Love is the secret of God's holy Dispensation,
the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual outpourings.
Love is heaven's kindly light, the Holy Spirit's eternal breath that vivifieth
the human soul.
Love is the cause of God's revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in
accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things.
Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world and the
next.
Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God
with man, that assureth the progress of every illumined soul.
Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the
unique power that bindeth together the diverse elements of this material world,
the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the
celestial realms.
Love revealeth with unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the
universe.
Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of
true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory
upon every high-aiming race and nation.
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- Selections from the Writings of
`Abdu'l-Bahá (Haifa: Bahá'í World Centre, 1982),
p. 27.
