Another unity is the spiritual unity which emanates from the
breaths of the Holy Spirit. This is greater than the unity of mankind. Human
unity or solidarity may be likened to the body whereas unity from the breaths
of the Holy Spirit is the spirit animating the body. This is a perfect unity. It
creates such a condition in mankind that each one will make sacrifices for the
other and the utmost desire will be to forfeit life and all that pertains to it
in behalf of another's good. This is the unity which existed among the
disciples of His Holiness Jesus Christ and bound together the prophets and holy
souls of the past. It is the unity which through the influence of the divine
spirit is permeating the Bahá'ís so that each offers his life for the other and
strives with all sincerity to attain his good-pleasure. This is the unity which
caused twenty thousand people in Iran to give their lives in love and devotion
to it. It made the Báb the target of a thousand arrows and caused Bahá'u'lláh
to suffer exile and imprisonment forty years. This unity is the very spirit of
the body of the world. It is impossible for the body of the world to become
quickened with life without its vivification. His Holiness Jesus Christ -- may
my life be a sacrifice to Him! -- promulgated this unity among mankind. Every
soul who believed in Jesus Christ became revivified and resuscitated through
this spirit, attained to the zenith of eternal glory, realized the life
everlasting, experienced the second birth and rose to the acme of good fortune.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i World Faith)
