sensual desires and cause the excluded to
become intimates of the mysteries. Let them give to the bereft a share of
the blessings of these days; let them guide the portionless to
inexhaustible treasure. This grace can come about through words and ways
and deeds that are of the Unseen Kingdom but, lacking such, it can never
be.

The confirmations of God are the surety for these blessings; the sacred
bounty of God bestoweth these great gifts. The friends of God are
supported by the Kingdom on high and they win their victories through the
massed armies of the most great guidance. Thus for them every difficulty
will be made smooth, every problem will most easily be solved.

Note ye how easily, where unity existeth in a given family, the affairs of
that family are conducted; what progress the members of that family make,
how they prosper in the world. Their concerns are in order, they enjoy
comfort and tranquillity, they are secure, their position is assured, they
come to be envied by all. Such a family but addeth to its stature and its
lasting honour, as day succeedeth day. And if we widen out the sphere of
unity a little to include the inhabitants of a village who seek to be
loving and united, who associate with and are kind to one another, what
great advances they will be seen to make, how secure and protected they
will be. Then let us widen out the sphere a little more, let us take the
inhabitants of a city, all of them together: if they establish the
strongest bonds of unity among themselves, how far they will progress,
even in a brief period and what power they will exert. And if the sphere
of unity be still further widened out, that is, if the inhabitants of a
whole country develop peaceable hearts, and if with all their hearts and
souls they yearn to cooperate with one another and to live in unity, and
if they become kind and loving to one another, that country will achieve
undying joy and lasting glory. Peace will it have, and plenty, and vast
wealth.

Note then: if every clan, tribe, community, every nation, country,
territory on earth should come together under the single-hued pavilion of
the oneness of mankind, and by the dazzling rays of the Sun of Truth
should proclaim the universality of man; if they should cause all nations
and all creeds to open wide their arms to one another, establish a World
Council, and proceed to bind the members of society one to another by
strong mutual ties, what would happen then?