Therefore the Lord of mankind has caused His holy divine Manifestations to
come into the world. He has revealed His heavenly books in order to
establish spiritual brotherhood, and through the power of the Holy Spirit
has made it practicable for perfect fraternity to be realized among
mankind. And when through the breaths of the Holy Spirit this perfect
fraternity and agreement are established amongst men, this brotherhood and
love being spiritual in character, this loving-kindness being heavenly,
these constraining bonds being divine, a unity appears which is
indissoluble, unchanging and never subject to transformation. It is ever
the same and will forever remain the same. For example consider the
foundation of the brotherhood laid by His Holiness Christ. Observe how
that fraternity was conducive to unity and accord and how it brought
various souls to a plane of uniform attainment where they were willing to
sacrifice their lives for each other. They were content to renounce
possessions and ready to joyously forfeit life itself. They lived together
in such love and fellowship that even Galen, the famous Greek philosopher,
who was not a Christian, in his work entitled “The Progress of the
Nations” says that religious beliefs are greatly conducive to the
foundation of real civilization. As a proof thereof he says, “A certain
number of people contemporaneous with us are known as Christians. These
enjoy the superlative degree of moral civilization. Each one of them is a
great philosopher because they live together in the utmost love and
good-fellowship. They sacrifice life for each other. They offer worldly
possessions for each other. You can say of the Christian people that they
are as one person. There is a bond amongst them that is indissoluble in
character.”
It is evident therefore that the foundation of real brotherhood, the cause
of loving co-operation and reciprocity and the source of real kindness and
unselfish devotion is none other than the breaths of the Holy Spirit.
Without this influence and animus it is impossible. We may be able to
realize some degrees of fraternity through other motives but these are
limited associations and subject to change. When human brotherhood is
founded upon the Holy Spirit, it is eternal, changeless, unlimited.
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