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Unfolding Destiny
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Pages 457-458
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Letter of 4 October 1950
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We must never take one sentence in the Teachings and isolate
it from the rest: it does not mean we must not love, but we must
reach a spiritual plane where God comes first and great human
passions are unable to turn us away from Him. All the time we
see people who either through the force of hate or the passionate
attachment they have to another person, sacrifice principle or
bar themselves from the Path of God.
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We know absence of light is darkness, but no one would assert
darkness was not a fact. It exists even though it is only the
absence of something else. So evil exists too, and we cannot close
our eyes to it, even though it is a negative existence. We must
seek to supplant it by good, and if we see an evil person is not
influenceable by us, then we should shun his company for it is
unhealthy.
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We must love God, and in this state a general love for all men
becomes possible. We cannot love each human being for himself,
but our feeling towards humanity should be motivated by our
love for the Father who created all men.
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The Bahá'í Faith teaches man was always potentially man,
even when passing through lower stages of evolution. Because
he has more powers, and subtler powers than the animal, when
he turns towards evil he becomes more vicious than an animal
because of these very powers.
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Many Theosophists accept Bahá'u'lláh as a Prophet, but we
have no special relation to theosophy. It would seem that the
Master had some special reason for not mentioning Bahá'u'lláh
specifically in His talk to the Theosophists in Budapest. What it
was we do not know, but we can assume His great tact and
wisdom impelled Him not to on that occasion.
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