O ye members of Assemblies in that land and in other
countries! Take ye counsel together, and let your concern be only for that
which profiteth mankind, and bettereth the condition thereof, if ye be of them
that scan heedfully. Regard the world as the human body which, though at its
creation whole and perfect, hath been afflicted, through various causes, with
grave disorders and maladies. Not for one day did it gain ease, nay, its
sickness waxed more severe, as it fell under the treatment of ignorant
physicians, who gave full rein to their personal desires, and have erred
grievously. And if at one time, through the care of an able physician, a member
of that body was healed, the rest remained afflicted as before. Thus informeth
you the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
(Baha’u’llah, from a Tablet addressed to
Queen Victoria, quoted by Baha’u’llah in the ‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
