ONENESS

All-praise to the unity of God, and all honor to Him, the sovereign Lord, the incomparable and all-glorious Ruler to the universe, Who, out of utter nothingness, hath created the reality of all things, Who, from naught, hath brought into being the most refined and subtle elements of His creation, and Who, rescuing His creatures from the abasement of remoteness and the perils of ultimate extinction, hath received them into His kingdom of incorruptible glory.  Nothing short of His all-encompassing grace, His all-pervading mercy, could have possibly achieved it.  How could it, otherwise, have been possible for sheer nothingness to have acquired by itself the worthiness and capacity to emerge from its state of non-existence into the realm of being?

-- Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p.64

O yet children of men!  The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.  Suffer it not to become a source of dissension and discord, of hate and enmity.  This is the straight Path, the fixed and immovable foundation.  Whatsoever is raised on this foundation, the changes and chances of the world can never impair, its strength, nor will the revolution of countless centuries undermine its structure.  Our hope is that the world's religious leaders and the rulers thereof will unitedly arise for the reformation of this age and the rehabilitation of its fortunes.  Let them, after mediating on its needs, take counsel together and, through anxious and full deliberation, administer to a diseased and sorely-afflicted world the remedy it requireth. 

-- Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p.161

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words:  Ye are the fruits of one tree, the leaves of one branch.  Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship.  He Who is the Daystar of Truth beareth Me witness!  So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.  The One true God, He Who knoweth all things, Himself testifieth to the truth of these words.  Exert yourselves that ye may attain this transcendent and most sublime station, the station that can insure the protection and security of all mankind.  This goal excelleth every other goal, and this aspiration is the monarch of all aspirations. 

-- Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf