Animalism
By devotion to the carnal, mortal world human susceptibilities sink to the level of animalism.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 184
It behooves him to be the cause of human welfare, but inasmuch as he glories in the savagery of animalism, it is an evidence that divine civilization has not been established in human society.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 103
Just as man has been physically born into this world, he may be reborn from the realm and matrix of nature, for the realm of nature is a condition of animalism, darkness and defect.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 332
There is no lower degree nor greater debasement for man than this natural condition of animalism.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 353
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Jalal 4 Ayyam-i-Ha 182 B.E.
While Bahá’u’lláh clearly affirms that these souls are "invested with divine forgiveness", "partake of the ocean of His mercy" and are the recipients of "the splendours of the Sun of Divine favor", the Research Department has not, however been able to locate any statement in the Writings to suggest that one's non-Bahá’í parents, upon their death, automatically become Bahá’ís.
The Universal House of Justice – 1991 Aug 28, The Condition of non-Bahá’í Relatives after Death