as two aspects in this world. The spiritual (the
real) and the formal (the outward). The formal side changes, as man
changes from age to age. The spiritual side which is the Truth, never
changes. The Prophets and Manifestations of God bring always the same
teaching; at first men cling to the Truth but after a time they disfigure
it. The Truth is distorted by man-made outward forms and material laws.
The veil of substance and worldliness is drawn across the reality of
Truth.

As Moses and Jesus brought their Message to the people, so Baha'u'llah
brings the same Message.

Each time God sends a Great One to us we are given new life, but the Truth
each Manifestation brings is the same. The Truth never changes but man's
vision changes. It is dulled and confused by the complication of outward
forms.

The Truth is easy to understand although the outward forms in which it is
expressed bewilder the intelligence. As men grow they see the futility of
man-made forms and despise them. Therefore many leave the churches,
because the latter often emphasize the external only.

DISCOURSE TO AN ASSEMBLY OF THEOSOPHISTS. LONDON

September, 1911.

These are wonderful days! We see an Eastern guest received with love and
courtesy in the West. I have been drawn here, in spite of indisposition,
by the magnet of your love and sympathy.

Some years ago an Ambassador was sent from Persia to London where he
stayed five years. (His name was 'Abdu'l Hasan _Kh_an). When he returned
to Persia they asked him to tell them about the English people. He
answered: "I do not know the English people, although I have been in
London for years I have only met the people of the Court." This man was a
great man in Persia, and was sent to England by princes, and yet he did
not know the people, although he had lived among them five years. Now,
I--long a prisoner, come to England for the first time, and although my
visit is so short, I have already met many dear friends, and I can say I
know the people. Those I have met are true souls working for peace and
unity.--Think what a difference there is between this time we are living in
now, and seventy years ago! Think of the progress! the progress towards
unity and peace.

It is God's will that the differences between nations should disappear.
Those who help on the cause of unity are doing God's work. Unity is the
Divine Bounty for this luminous century. Praise be to God,