Copyright © 2012 Baha’is of Woodland Park and Teller County Colorado
Bahá’ís believe that there is a single infinite, all-
Throughout history God has sent divine Teachers to
reveal His Will progressively according to humanity’s developing needs and ability
to comprehend.
Those Teachers have included Abraham, Moses, Christ, Buddha, Zoroaster,
Krishna, and Muhammad, each of Whom brought essentially the same spiritual truth,
but different social laws addressed to the needs of Their times. The world’s great
religions, then, constitute a single faith, like chapters in a great book of truth.
Bahá’u’lláh is the most recent Messenger from God. He teaches that the purpose of
each individual soul is to know and to love God, and that of humanity is to carry
forward an ever-
Among those Teachings are:
* the responsibility of each person
to independently search for truth
* the abandonment of all forms of prejudice|
*
recognition of the oneness of the human family
* recognition of the essential
unity of the world’s religions
* recognition that true religion is in harmony
with reason and the pursuit of scientific knowledge
* assurance to women of full
equality of rights and opportunity with men
* the elimination of extremes of
poverty and wealth
* the realization of universal education
* the establishment
of a global commonwealth of nations
O SON OF SPIRIT!
I created thee rich, why dost thou bring thyself down to poverty? Noble I made thee,
wherewith dost thou abase thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I gave thee being,
why seekest thou enlightenment from anyone beside Me? Out of the clay of love I molded
thee, how dost thou busy thyself with another? Turn thy sight unto thyself, that
thou mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful and self-
Baha’u’llah
