l peoples.--The Secret of
Divine Civilization, pp. 70-71.

Unity of East and West

Another factor which will help in bringing about universal peace is the
linking together of the East and the West. The Most Great Peace is no mere
cessation of hostilities, but a fertilizing union and cordial cooperation
of the hitherto sundered peoples of the earth which will bear much
precious fruit. In one of His talks in Paris, 'Abdu'l-Baha said:--

In the past, as in the present, the Spiritual Sun of Truth has
always shone from the horizon of the East. In the East Moses arose
to lead and teach the people. On the Eastern horizon rose the Lord
Christ. Muhammad was sent to an Eastern nation. The Bab arose in
the Eastern land of Persia. Baha'u'llah lived and taught in the
East. All the great spiritual teachers arose in the Eastern world.

But although the Sun of Christ dawned in the East, the radiance
thereof was apparent in the West, where the effulgence of its
glory was more clearly seen. The divine light of His teaching
shone with a greater force in the Western world, where it has made
more rapid headway than in the land of its birth.

In these days the East is in need of material progress and the
West is in need of a spiritual ideal. It would be well for the
West to turn to the East for illumination, and to give in exchange
its scientific knowledge. There must be this interchange of gifts.
The East and the West must unite to give to each other what is
lacking. This union will bring about true civilization where the
spiritual is expressed and carried out in the material. Receiving
thus, the one from the other, the greatest harmony will prevail,
all people will be united, a state of great perfection will be
attained, there will be a firm cementing, and this world will
become a shining mirror for the reflection of the attributes of
God.

We all, the Eastern and the Western nations, must strive day and
night, with heart and soul, to achieve this high ideal, to cement
the unity between all the nations of the earth. Every heart will
then be refreshed, all eyes will be opened, the most wonderful
power will be given, the happiness of humanity will be assured....
This will be the Paradise which is to come on earth, when all
mankind will be gathered together under the Tent of Unity in the
Kingdo