_ 9 ibid.,_ paragraph 104. _ 10 ibid.,_ paragraph 106. _ 11 Gleanings,_ section XXII. _ 12 Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh_ (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1987), page 311. _ 13 Gleanings,_ section XXVII. _ 14 ibid.,_ section CIX. _ 15 ibid.,_ section LXXXI. 16 Julian Huxley, cited by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, _The Phenomenon of Man_ (London: William Collins Sons &Co. Ltd., 1959), page 243. See also Julian Huxley, _Knowledge, Morality, and Destiny_ (New York: Harper &Brothers, 1957), page 13. 17 Shoghi Effendi, _The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters_ (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1991), page 35. _ 18 Gleanings,_ section LXXVIII. _ 19 ibid.,_ section CXXXII. 20 Bahá’u’lláh, _The Kitáb-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book_ (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1993), paragraph 182. 21 Bahá’u’lláh, _The Kitáb-i-Íqán,_ paragraph 4. _ 22 ibid.,_ paragraph 8. _ 23 ibid.,_ paragraph 13. _ 24 ibid.,_ paragraph 14. 25 St. Matthew 13.25, Authorized King James Version. _ 26 ibid.,_ 13.29–30_._ 27 Qur’án, surih 7, verse 33, Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation, third edition, (n.p.: 1938). 28 Bahá’u’lláh, _The Kitáb-i-Aqdas,_ paragraph 99. _ 29 The Summons of the Lord of Hosts: Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh_ (Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 2002), paragraph 126. 30 Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, _The Advent of Divine Justice _(Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1990), page 79. 31 Isaiah 45.5. 32 Timothy 1.17. 33 Qur’án, surih 3, verse 73. _ 34 ibid.,_ surih 2, verse 177. 35 St. Matthew 5.13. _ 36 ibid.,_ 5.14. 37 Micah 6.8. 38 St. John 14.6. 39 Qur’án, surih 24, verse 35. 40 Genesis 17.7. 41 Bhagavad-Gita, chapter IV, Sir Edwin Arnold translation. 42 Deuteronomy 34.10. 43 St. John 5.45–47_._ 44 Qur’án, surih 2, verse 136. _ 45 The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912,_ revised edition (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1995), page 326. 46 St. John 1.10. _ 47 Gleanings,_ section CVI. 48 Abraham Lincoln, quoted in _Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States_ (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989). 49 Qur’án, surih 21, verse 104. 50 Bahá’u’lláh, _The Kitáb-i-Aqdas,_ paragraph 5. _ 51 The Summons of the Lord of Hosts,_ paragraph 174. 52 Shoghi Effendi, _The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh,_ page 204. 53 Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, _The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh,_ page 192. _ 54 Gleanings,_ section CVI. _ 55 Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh,_ page 129. 56 Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, _The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh,_ pages 202–203. 57 Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, _The Advent of Divine Justice,_ page 84. _ 58 Gleanings,_ section CXXXII.