06 April 2022

’Idál, 17 Bahá (Splendor), 179 B.E

Seen

American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) branches on a cloudy, rainy day…

And spiny seed pods on the ground …

Done

Another productive day:

• Reduced my inbox to zero.
• Stayed current on email correspondence.
• Completed postings to GAVNet News.
• Edited Framework for Understanding the World
  • Added “Oneness” to the glossary (and see “Quoted” below)
• Zoom call with Tony Budak and Dawn Davies. Learned about Hourcoin, Timecentres UK Ltd, and The Coalfields Regeneration Trust. Looking forward to what’s next!

Noted

Astral Prospecting on Instagram and Astral Prospecting on Facebook

Marc Bosserman on Instagram Marc Bosserman on Facebook, and Marc Bosserman Music and Musings on YouTube - Nashville Sessions EP

Tab’s Galaxy on YouTube

Quoted

Let there be no mistake. The principle of the Oneness of Mankind—the pivot round which all the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh revolve—is no mere outburst of ignorant emotionalism or an expression of vague and pious hope. Its appeal is not to be merely identified with a reawakening of the spirit of brotherhood and good-will among men, nor does it aim solely at the fostering of harmonious coöperation among individual peoples and nations. Its implications are deeper, its claims greater than any which the Prophets of old were allowed to advance. Its message is applicable not only to the individual, but concerns itself primarily with the nature of those essential relationships that must bind all the states and nations as members of one human family. It does not constitute merely the enunciation of an ideal, but stands inseparably associated with an institution adequate to embody its truth, demonstrate its validity, and perpetuate its influence. It implies an organic change in the structure of present-day society, a change such as the world has not yet experienced. It constitutes a challenge, at once bold and universal, to outworn shibboleths of national creeds—creeds that have had their day and which must, in the ordinary course of events as shaped and controlled by Providence, give way to a new gospel, fundamentally different from, and infinitely superior to, what the world has already conceived. It calls for no less than the reconstruction and the demilitarization of the whole civilized world—a world organically unified in all the essential aspects of its life, its political machinery, its spiritual aspiration, its trade and finance, its script and language, and yet infinite in the diversity of the national characteristics of its federated units. ¹