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The Nature of the Soul Doesn’t Change But Everything Else Does
One of the most poignant speeches by a political leader is that of Robert Kennedy given in Indianapolis in 1968, the night that Martin Luther King was assassinated. Robert Kennedy was himself assassinated 63 days later. As Robert Kennedy spoke, he recalled his own loss of his brother and the words of an Ancient Greek poet, Aeschylus. Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. Here is evidence, if we need it, that the nature of the soul has not changed – even after the passage of…
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The Oneness of Religion
The oneness of religion is a core principle of Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings. The following is an incomplete introduction. The principle is perhaps also one of the most widely misunderstood of Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings. In one form, the misunderstanding is that it involves in some sense “combining” different religions or taking elements from different religions to create a new religion. This is not at all the meaning of oneness of religion. It is easier perhaps to understand the concept if we think of the term “religion” in the phrase “oneness of religion” as not referring so much to individual religions (such as Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, or the Baha’i Faith) as to the phenomenon of religion as…
