ove and mercy
in the next world and reap their full reward."

109: LOVE (TURN TO BAHA'I BROTHERS AND SISTERS)

"Turn to your Baha'i brothers and sisters, who are living with you in the
kingdom. Indeed, the believers have not yet fully learned to draw on each
other's love for strength and consolation in time of need. The Cause of
God is endowed with tremendous powers, and the reason the believers do not
gain more from it is because they have not learned to duly draw these
mighty forces of love and strength and harmony generated by the Faith."

110: LOVE, CUSTODIANS OF (WORLD EXCEEDINGLY DARK)

"The friends must, at all times, bear in mind that they are, in a way,
like soldiers under attack. The world is at present in an exceedingly dark
condition spiritually; hatred and prejudice of every sort are literally
tearing it to pieces. We, on the other hand, are the custodians of the
opposite forces, the forces of love, of unity, of peace and integration,
and we must continually be on our guard, whether as individuals or as an
Assembly or Community, lest through us these destructive, negative forces
enter into our midst. In other words, we must beware lest the darkness of
society become reflected in our acts and attitudes, perhaps all
unconsciously. Love for each other, the deep sense that we are a new
organism, the dawn-breakers of a new World Order, must constantly animate
our Baha'i lives, and we must pray to be protected from the contamination
of society which is so diseased with prejudice."

111: LOVE--UNITY (THE GREATEST NEED)

"The greatest need it seems everywhere inside the Cause is to impress upon
the friends the need for love among them. There is a tendency to mix up
the functions of the Administration and try to apply it in individual
relationships, which is abortive, because the Assembly is a nascent House
of Justice and is supposed to administer, according to the Teachings, the
affairs of the Community. But individuals towards each other are governed
by love, unity, forgiveness and a sin-covering eye. Once the friends grasp
this they will get along much better, but they keep playing Spiritual
Assembly to each other and expect the Assembly to behave like an
individual."

112: MANIFESTATION--IN 1000 YEARS (ORGANIC UNITY)

"As to the meaning of the quotation, 'My fears are for Him Who will be
sent down unto you after Me,' this refers to the Manifestation who is to
come